1 January 1945

Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes to Estelle: "It is unnecessary for me to describe my eternal devotion to you - " Written en route to the Philippines

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January 19, 1945

Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes, "In combat again - a lot to say but - A. very tired - B. very very dirty - C. Busy, Busy as all hell - "

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25 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written at 11:15 PM. Just finished listening to the Anthony program on the radio, and found it funny, and WQXR Music to Read By.

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26 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written at 1:30 PM. Sylvia is on the subway train going from one client [she works for the Department of Welfare of New York City] to another. Written at 4:30 PM at home. She has the next day off.

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27 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Addresses many of Moe's previous letters. Sylvia wishes her mail would reach him on a regular basis. Comments that he is sewing, not using a gun or pen in the Army. She attended the Executive Meeting of the Victory Educational Council of the Ocean Front. The purpose of the group is to put pressure on legislatures to address issues for the community and the consumer. She complains about someone who has a new Plymouth and Black Market gas. She writes poetry in response to his poems.

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27 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia finds herself listening to the "Bob Hope Program" and thinks of Moe. She talks about listening to the radio and the song "As Time Goes By" from the movie "Casablanca." She has heard the news that England is trying to make peace between Poland and Russia. Says Russia does not avoid the issue, she knows where she stands unlike "the good old USA" that equivocates, while professing love for the USA but wishing she would be more like Russia.

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28 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written at 11:00 PM at home. Sylvia went shopping for him for shoe polish and thimbles to use for his trigger finger. Tried to get him Halva and was told it wasn't "in season." She talks about old letters that she has found that he wrote, one from 1926. Also that she dreams of him at Oregon State [University] in training.

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29 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Typed letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written at 9:30 AM at the office. Sylvia is glad he is stationed in Oregon. Boys who have returned from Southern camps do not report pleasant conditions. Says her brother Alvin has not been getting passes where he is stationed. Gives him her blessing to "mingle" with girls.(including a penciled postscript) Has a nice Director at work who is leaving to go to the USO.

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29 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia tells Moe about the current book she is reading. Received a gift of two records, then played ping-pong. Notes that he has been gone for eight weeks. This letter includes a hand drawn map of the United States with Brooklyn at one end and Salem, OR at the other.

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30 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Typed letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written 4:30 PM at the office. Sylvia filled in at the Intake Department at work and enjoyed it. Describes working in the field as endless work, that makes you always think you've forgotten something. Describes a new 42 year old woman at work as a "girl" who is a lot of fun and to whom she told some of Moe's dirty limericks. Tells a dirty (sexual) joke in the letter.

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30 April 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written 10:45 PM at home. Sylvia just got home from Moe's mother's place where she had a good dinner. Tells him his father really misses him. Responded to his letters. Enjoyed his description of the "boys" he spends most of his time with.

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1 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia tells Moe that Sarah has an application for OCS [Officer's Candidate School] and she will send it to Moe. Tells him to do whatever he thinks is best; but PVT or PFC is good enough for her. Talks about his brother Ben and his sister Adele's boyfriend. Sylvia also talks about her day at work, luncheon out and a supervisor leaving for a different division. Sarah came over and is staying overnight because the next day they are going to a Labor Rally.

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2 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia reports that Dave H. has won two campaign ribbons. She tells a long story of how he won the medals and the Coast Guard off Nantucket Island.

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3 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written at 12 Midnight at home. Sylvia says she received letters and pictures from him, as well as her allotment check. The picture makes her feel "warm and cold" because it brought her close to him yet he is not actually with her.

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4 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Typed letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia asks Moe to thank Mrs. Feitelson for her letter. Says Sammy is in Officer's Training. She had a flat tire that morning and Sidney will help her change it. She and Sarah are planning on attending the Union Convention on Saturday. Will call his mother about whether she got her allotment check and develop some pictures for her.

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4 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia talks about yesterday's Labor Rally for the War Effort that didn't have the same spirit as a May Day Parade. The speakers were Senator [Claude] Pepper, Mayor La Guardia, Paul Robeson, and the French woman editor of the Free French Paper. David and Lil write postscripts to the letter.

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5 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Typed letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia saw the opera last night-Fledermaus/Rosalinda (Johan Stauss) Passed the Times Building and bought a copy of the Oregonian (Portland newspaper) to see news from his location. She is going that night to a place in Brighton that is run by the Jewish Council of Women for Teen Age Kids, she may volunteer if she fits in. Reports her parents went to see her brother Alvin in Buffalo.

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5 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia received a letter from Alvin (brother) on his 20th birthday. Her mother and father saw Alvin who is very thin because there is not enough food. Alvin is not allowed to go out and get food so Sylvia is sending some. Is enclosing a piece from P.M. (magazine) -Max Lerner's article on the miner's situation.

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6 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Typed letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia tells him that the Mother's Day gifts will be given from both of them. Thanks him for thinking up a scheme to keep her letters, so they will have a full story when this is all over.

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6 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Dave has told Sylvia some new stories about his C.O. who sent him on a mission to Maine with the Coast Guard. Talks about a new law that all Ensigns must be examined by an M.D.. Says his brother Ben is shipping out this week and that he is trying to get a divorce but will still support his ex-wife and kids. Includes two-sided Pictogram.

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7 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia notes that she has "B" [ration] coupons for gasoline. At A&S she shopped for gifts for Mother's Day. Reports that Marge has a job. She will probably start working in Intake sometime in the future. Says Moe's sister Adele is probably serious about her new boyfriend, but he is "so conservative."

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9 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia went out to lunch with her friends, then went over to the Union Hall, where they heard three speakers. She thanks him for returning her letters. She was happy to hear the results of his training exams. She loved the local examples of flora from [Oregon].

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9 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Written at 9:30 PM. Sylvia says she had funny dreams about him running after a trolley; like something out of a Dali painting. Delivered the respective Mother's Day gifts. Speaks of how many Sundays she spent with him.

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10 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia went to work and met her new supervisor (a man). She told her male co-workers to stop treating her differently because she knows what she is doing. Asks about whether he will be getting a furlough, or should she come out to the West coast to him. Says the Axis put up a resistance on the Russian front to a point; but knows this is the beginning of the end.

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11 May 1943

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Typed letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia says she rode in to work with Sid and one of his neighbors who boasted about a car trip to Grossinger's using Black Market gasoline. Discussed with others how well he did in his exams, and was still not chosen. Says there is either an age limit [Moe is about 34 at this time] or a quota for Jews. Says the Russians learned a lot, at great cost, from the Germans, and that the Germans just cracked under the pressure and lack of material.

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