Re: [Cz-L] Deciphering German script

Dear Robert,

I will gladly translate a few of the letters in your collection, but I will
not be able to do so, till some time this summer. When you are ready, please
send me scans of the letters, no more than two at a time.

Mimi

On 2/24/11 12:13 PM, "Robert Burton" <robert.burton_at_rogers.com> wrote:

> Many thanks Marianne,
>
> Regrettably, I have been very pre-occupied with some personal matters, but I
> do have - as I have written before - a collection of about 250 letters and
> postcards in German, mostly between my parents who escaped to Toronto in
> 1939, and their parents who remained in Czernowitz until they escaped (via
> Constanta on the Vitorul to Constantinople. My grandfather wrote in script.
> I would obviously love to have it all translated - which might involve a
> group of very kind people taking on manageable sections of the
> correspondence.
>
> The correspondence is interesting because it details some hair-raising
> experiences, AND my father's efforts to start a business during the war (My
> parents' visas were granted despite their being Jewish, because they had
> money, and had committed to starting a business and hiring - at the time
> they got the visas, the country was still in the grip of the depression.).
> At that time Canadian bankers were generally openly anit-semitic, and credit
> was hard to come by. It may be that the business stuff is an under-explored
> area.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you as a group or individually. If it would
> be possible to collect a group of translators, I would think that huge
> amounts of unread materials could be brought to light. Researchers at
> universities won't open boxes unless the stuff is on topic for the subject
> of their inquiries.
>
> Many thanks and best regards
>
> Bobby
>

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