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Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008 to Morris "Moe" Weiner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09414.0039 Author/Creator: Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008 Place Written: Brooklyn, New York Type: Typed letter signed Date: 20 May 1943 Pagination: 6 p. ; 28 x 21.6 cm. Order a Copy

Sylvia is tired because she walked all the way to her father's house. Saw children along the way, boys chasing girls and the girls calling them "dirty little Polack." Feels that "despite all we've gone through with the Depression and the War, things have not changed essentially."

Weiner, Morris "Moe," 1909-1988
Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008
Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880-1969
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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