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Can any Polish speakers translate an old document?

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CaptainWarbeck · 21/07/2022 19:14

This is a letter we found while going through old things. I think it's written by a relative who was in a German camp in the second world war. However there's so much handwriting and I don't speak Polish I wondered if anyone could make anything of it before I plough through Google translate?

Can any Polish speakers translate an old document?
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Magdal3na · 06/08/2022 09:47

Interesting story. The letter is written by a woman to her brother. Here is the translation.

Dear Tadek, I received your letter and it made me a lot of joy, and the photo was a big surprise.
I thought you were a slim and slender youth, just like our Polish airmen, but surprisingly
the photo shows that you are a cavalier of heavy artillery.
I am sorry that our parents raised us like that, being so close family and didn't know each other until now.
It took a war and emigration, after which we find our unknown relatives.
With envy I read about you, that you live normally in conditions similar to the pre-war ones.
I cannot say that about myself, although I am not cold and hungry, but this is no life.
I found myself in Regensburg in February 1944, forced by the Germans to forced labor.

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