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Anyone read Hebrew?

David_53
David_53 Member Posts: 32
in THE MAIN WALL
WOW...very impressed. I came on here to learn about heat and I end up learning some Yiddish. :)

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  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    I bought my wife a Jewish armband that was worn in the Polish ghettos, but have no idea what it says. (two lines of Hebrew) Any readers out there? She has a Jewish heritage (Brenner)

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Mark Eatherton
    Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,852
    Moishe does...

    The Mikvah man (a.k.a. Moses) from New York does.

    ME

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  • rich pickering
    rich pickering Member Posts: 277


    I can help you if you scan and post or email it.

    Steve
  • don_185
    don_185 Member Posts: 312
    i think

    I think you have to start reading from the right to the left.

    Hope it helps.
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    Here is ours (with the star) and another with the same text but without the star..

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    I hope this is nothing offensive, if so please email me direct...timco@xmission.com

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Man with a question
    Man with a question Member Posts: 69
    Armband

    I actually read and speak Hebrew well enough, but that is not going to help us because the writing appears to be in...Yiddish!

    What it says is: "Satzeler Emet"

    Not sure what this means. But this should put you on the right track.

  • Mark Hunt_6
    Mark Hunt_6 Member Posts: 147
    Looks like

    an arm band I saw at an Obama rally. I think it means, "Yes we can!"
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    That is the first time I have ever googled something and got zero results! Not sure hot to figure this out...

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Kal Row
    Kal Row Member Posts: 1,520
    a name \"Amt S
  • Man with a question
    Man with a question Member Posts: 69
    Astounding

    The body of knowledge available on The Wall is truly astounding!

  • helpingothershelpthemselves_2
    helpingothershelpthemselves_2 Member Posts: 326
    hebrew/yiddish

    The functional translation is 'Satisfied Soul"

    Many words and phrases from Yiddish in Hebrew symbols do not have a literal translation.

    Ken Resnick

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  • bob young
    bob young Member Posts: 2,177
    band of brothers

    not so much the The body of knowledge but the willingness to share it.
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    I can only imagine that life in a Warsaw Ghetto never brought anyone a satisfied soul. We imagined it would have identified the work they were performing. My grandpa's name was Schmitz, I married a Brenner, and my grandma's family (White) fought in the Civil war. we really are a nation of many origins. I am proud of all my ties. Our neighbor, Otto Liebergisell was a POW captured on D-day. Was brought here as a prisoner and allowed to become a resident alien. Great guy, joined the German army at 16 or 17. Starts each sentence with "Vell..."

    Added edit..THANK YOU for the help with the translation!

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • S Ebels_2
    S Ebels_2 Member Posts: 74
    That thought could be expressed like this....

    My first big thought of 2009........... drum roll please

    "Collectively, we are smarter than the rest of us."


    There, I've completed my philosophical undertaking for the year! :)


    Could be our new Wall motto.
  • Kal Row
    Kal Row Member Posts: 1,520
    found it!!!, arm band of the jewish resistance fighters...

    i knew i had seen it some ware - and i told Moses Fichman yesterday what it was - but i didn’t want to post it until i could prove it
    - they were called "par-ti-zans" - most died from the elements in those cold polish winters, those caught, were slaughtered in front of others in captivity, they are the unsung heroes of the great war

    they wore ids, so if found dead (happened a lot), they could be id'd easily - it was important for the families to know, so their wives could remarry etc, and they wouldn’t have to go looking for a missing person, as they did not have the resources for real organization, and if the Germans found them, having an id didn’t matter as they were sooooo dead anyway

    http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005213&MediaId=698
  • Bob Burnham
    Bob Burnham Member Posts: 18
    Eureka! I have found it

    It translates to - Oh no Contantin! Not again, not again
  • Brad White_191
    Brad White_191 Member Posts: 252
    What a wonderful tribute to such

    a horrible time. Beyond bravery. Beyond words.

    Thanks, Kal.
  • klaus
    klaus Member Posts: 183
    a satisfied soul

    wow! In the midst of such horror, a person could wear a statement " satisfied soul. Makes sense when you think about it. Having a satified soul has never had anything to do with the problems around you, but always has had a lot to do with, doing what is right, in the midst of the problem. Should be a shining example to all of us, none of us who are without problems, and all of us in the need to make the best choise in the midst of the problem, however small it may be in comparision.
  • Paul Rohrs_7
    Paul Rohrs_7 Member Posts: 173
    Makes MY problems seem....

    well....not so much like a problem anymore. (I love the lessons that history teaches us)

    Thanks for a wonderful perspective for this new year.

    Paul
  • Bob B_2
    Bob B_2 Member Posts: 8
    one more...

    My family friend, a rabbi who grew up in Hungary during WWII says this (I did give him the context):

    it literally means: Social Office - but I think that
    it actually means Social Welfare Office. Or Social Services Office

  • Hitzkup
    Hitzkup Member Posts: 63
    Reading yiddish

    I do read and understand
    hebrew and yiddish,This phrase is in Yiddish and Bob B is right, it translates to "social office" which was probebly just one of the offices that the germans used to control the getto.
  • Man with a question
    Man with a question Member Posts: 69
    Question

    I'm amazed again at the breadth of knowledge here.

    G-d bless the America AND the wall.

    Just curious. How does Aleph/Mem/TAf come to mean office?

    I figured it would be something like the Hebrew "Misrad" or German "Buro".

    Alas, the last of the Yiddish speakers in my family are no longer with us, but hey, they outlasted the Nazis by a number of decades!
  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 7,405
    THERE is GREAT satisfaction in The Good Fight....

    Dying with your boots on!!!!!!!!!
    The TOUGH Polish Jews of The Warsaw Ghetto gave The Wehrmacht, SS, and Hitler in particular....FITS!! when they stymied the Nazi occupation of their city. Firearms and chutzpah saved many a day there...so much in fact that The frustrated Nazis eventually bulldozed the area and dynamited it rather than be picked off. Mad Dog

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  • Hitzkup
    Hitzkup Member Posts: 63
    The word \"amt\" in German

    It is Aleph/Mem/Teth wich reads out "amt" and translates to multiple similar meanings, for more see here:

    http://www.dict.cc/?s=amt
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