Re: [Cz-L] Deciphering German script

Welcome to all the newcomers!!!It's wonderful to have second and third
generations joining us.
First of all Shanah Tova all around.
I am quite good in Rumanian and I learned, what you call old German- Gothic-
writing and can read it. I suppose all of us who offer their help will work
out the whole.
I understand that you, Robert, don't want "personal letters" to be
translated by strangers. Although we all are strangers we are Czernowitzers
and as such some sort of family.
Welcome to the club. hope you'll enjoy it.
anny

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Shirley Berens <sberens_at_charter.net> wrote:

> Hi Stanley,
> You actually have an historical treasure and your documents should be
> translated and preserved. You might want to contact Edward Serotta at the
> Jewish historical institute, Centropa, in Vienna. They have a web page
> www.centropa.org. They might be interested in some or all of your
> things.
> Shabbat Shalom,
> Shirley
>
>
> From: Robert Burton
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:20 PM
> To: 'stanley mailman' ; 'Shirley Berens'
>
> Cc: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Deciphering German script
>
>
>
> Hello all with wishes for a sweet and healthy year.
>
> I also have no German to speak of, but many letters and documents that I
> would dearly loved to have translated. My parents were able to get out to
> Toronto Canada just as the War was breaking out. They arrived in New York
> City on August 22 and were in Toronto - after being held a few days until
> the US cleared their Visas - by September 2 and wrote to their parents on
> the 4th.They came to Canada on special "Orders in Council", orders made by
> the Cabinet of the Government, because they had money and had undertaken to
> open a factory and create jobs.
>
> I have over 250 letters from them to their family and back. I also have
> several documents, mostly in Romanian. The letters from my grandfather were
> written in the old German script. Some of the letters have been glanced at,
> and a huge part of them was the repeated futile, and by the end of 1940,
> frantic attempts to get exit documents from the Romanians and entry
> documents from Canada. There are many other business letters.
>
> This is a very substantial undertaking, and I do not want to give the stuff
> to an archive only to have the box put in a cellar somewhere. I had thought
> that an archive might receive the collection in exchange for having it
> translated. If I could get a tax deduction for the gift, I would donate it
> to the archive. But it does not seem to be a practice. So, I too am hoping
> that one of you can offer to translate even a part of this fairly unique
> collection.
>
> If anyone can help me, I would be grateful.
>
> Bob Burton
>
> Robert Burton
> Cobob Holdings Limited
> 307 Sheppard Avenue East
> TORONTO, Ontario
> Canada M2N 3B3
>
> Tel: 416 226 6895, Ext. 29,
> Fax: 416 223 0321
>

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