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[Brownsville Brooklyn]

thats my grand mother's family in Warsaw in the 1930s....the original pic is 3"x3" at the most....it was the wedding of one of my grand mother's sisters....i had the pic blown up to 5x7 & had it framed....in this pic is my great grandmother, her 4 daugters, there husbands & children....they all starved to death in 1945 in the Warsaw Ghetto....non survived....i dont think my grand mother ever heard one of their voices again after she left Warsaw in 1918....i opened up a box last June that my mother had that said Philip & Ellen, my mother's niece & nephew (both brilliant minds)....i had no idea what was in that box but 60+ years later i found all the pics, the Yiddish letter etc....an incredible story....

 

[Brownsville Brooklyn]

this was the last letter & my favorite....

This letter is from around 1944 or 1945 from Warsaw to Brooklyn. It's my fav because my grand mother's family in Warsaw are saying great things about my mother & my uncle.

Dear beloved daughter and dear beloved grandchildren, may you live and be well.

I received your dear letter, and why I did not answer right away was because there was a lot of work at Leytche’s, and I still wanted you to come. It would have been difficult for you to read a second handwriting *?). When your letter came, it was exactly on the anniversary of your father’s death which fell in the same month, and we prayed a lot for your good health.

Further, I thank you for the $2. With this money, I cut material for a _____and when I will have it, I will send you a photograph.
Everything else is the same with me. I am healthy and I hope to hear the same from you.

Dear daughter, write me if you got from your ______or if you need to take care of everything yourself NEXT SEVERAL WORDS ARE ILLEGIBLE Write me whether you received a letter from Leytche. Write me if your Hershele already completed school and what the news is with your lovely Feyge. That she is good and clever can be seen in her face. About your Hershele, there are no adequate words. You have two children who are brilliant. May they be well. We talk about them all the time, and that maybe we will see each other at some later time, if it would be possible.
Further, at Mindle’s they are well and are working. At Feygele’s it is also not bad. She looks very well and they have your regards. She would want that you send your children ILLEGIBLE to spend a week with her. It is ILLEGIBLE SECTION… and that they are well, and the children are learning how to behave themselves properly. She has no child. It is something she very much wanted at the beginning, but it is a matter of money, and that the earnings are small. Meanwhile, it has to be like this, but regrettably, she ILLEGIBLEshe says that ILLEGIBLE.

Now I will enclose a little picture which he (?)
T.N. I BELIEVE SHE IS REFERRING TO ANSHL – THE ONE FROM THE PREVIOUS LETTERS. sends you. He wants to ask you if it is possible, that you should be interested in him, and he is dying to go to America. We advised him, that since he is a good-looking boy and also a modern one and educated, he should go to America. America should only take him. Maybe this will interest you. He would be ecstatic because he writes that in America he would be able to obtain his goal. I understand that when you see his picture, you will have a more accurate idea of how to describe him to the person you will find suitable for this.

He is a young man, born in 1913, well-built, 170 (meters?) in height. He has a certificate of completion from high school. He is a good artisan, a goldsmith. Believe me, he earns a good living at this.
You will most likely be wondering why I am coming to you with such a request, so I will tell you now, that his opportunities are already gone this winter, and they were quite suitable, very fine genteel and intelligent ones. They tried to make the matches in order to get a future and a better life.

T.N. I AM NOT SURE IF SHE IS REFERRING HERE TO A BRIDE OR TO BETTER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. NOT CLEAR..

Dear sister, I believe that you will do the best you can and I depend entirely on you which side we all ILLEGIBLE and happy, and I wish you do whatever you can.

I greet you all.

 

[dmc]

170 (meters?) in height.

Thats like 560 feet....

Centimeters puts him at 5'5"

 

[Brownsville Brooklyn]

Thats like 560 feet....

Centimeters puts him at 5'5"

a translator did that....5'5" is more like it....most eastern european jews are small....they have huge brains....smartest humans to ever live....read the bell shaped curve....

 

[Paul]

http://www.genealogy.com/community.html

 

[thetrailboss]

I'm honestly speechless.

 

[Warp Daddy]

so what has this got to do with a damn ski forum ?

 

[Brownsville Brooklyn]

so what has this got to do with a damn ski forum ?

for me it puts life in perspective....shows respect to our forebearers....the people that made it possible that we had freedom & opportunity so we could go skiing....600 ski days in 18 seasons traveling 285 miles one way from the ages of 33-50 is very rare....from 1988, first time i put on a pair of skis, to nov 92' when i started at k, i did 33 days 10 of which were at stowe

 

[WakeboardMom]

http://www.genealogy.com/community.html

What am I missing? Is there someplace on that site that will back up the claim that Eastern Europeans are the smartest humans to have ever lived? "Read the bell curve." What bell curve? Where?

The IP was interesting, but the post about the bell curve isn't.

(I thought the Irish were the smartest people who ever lived. Just ask John Belushi...!! ; - )

 

[Glenn]

Congrats!

Word count in your initial post in this thread: 126

Word count in your signature: 107

If ever there was a reason to put a character limit on signatures........

 

[marcski]

Congrats!

Word count in your initial post in this thread: 126

Word count in your signature: 107

If ever there was a reason to put a character limit on signatures........

You guys keep talking about his signature...Screw his signature, what about his crazy posts??

 

[Brownsville Brooklyn]

You guys keep talking about his signature...Screw his signature, what about his crazy posts??

dood ya gotta be crazy to drive 285 miles one way from LI to k for 18 years:roll::roll::wink::wink:

 

[marcski]

And you guys here thought GSS was bad??? :roll:

 

[RootDKJ]

And you guys here thought GSS was bad??? :roll:

Ditto. If the bar has been moved, might as well let the boy back in since he's probably reading this anyway.

 

[Brownsville Brooklyn]

Ditto. If the bar has been moved, might as well let the boy back in since he's probably reading this anyway.

i dont know of such GSS....what this person do? did he rack it at snowdown?

 

[RootDKJ]

i dont know of such GSS....what this person do? did he rack it at snowdown?

Before your time.

http://forums.alpinezone.com/member.php?u=4538

 

[Paul]

What am I missing? Is there someplace on that site that will back up the claim that Eastern Europeans are the smartest humans to have ever lived? "Read the bell curve." What bell curve? Where?

The IP was interesting, but the post about the bell curve isn't.

(I thought the Irish were the smartest people who ever lived. Just ask John Belushi...!! ; - )

It was more of a suggestion, really.

I suspect there are discussion forums there.

 

[ta&idaho]

i dont know of such GSS....what this person do?

Interesting comparison:

• GSS posted an average of 18.49 posts per day, yet he started less than a thread per day over the course of his 440 days as an active AZ member.
• BB posts an average of 6.09 posts per day, but he has started an average of 1.4 threads per day over the course of his 55 days as an AZ member.

 

[ctenidae]

GSS's posts, while often asinine and childish, made sense and were generally readable. And he rapped some, so there's that.

BB, on the other hand, is the daily winner of the Bunny + Pancake Award.

It is (maybe) interesting that Mike Tyson, Andrew Dice Clay, and Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard are all from Brownsville. That may explain something. Maybe.

 

[Brownsville Brooklyn]

Interesting comparison:

• GSS posted an average of 18.49 posts per day, yet he started less than a thread per day over the course of his 440 days as an active AZ member.
• BB posts an average of 6.09 posts per day, but he has started an average of 1.4 threads per day over the course of his 55 days as an AZ member.

lmfao....thats funny!!