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Submitted by Michelle Sokol Bratsafolis

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 4/28/2024 8:48 PM
Family Surname: Sokol
Country: Italy
Town: Rome
Date of Image: 1946-47
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This image came from my father's personal effects. I would like to know what the inscription means when translated.

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4/28/2024 9:47 PM For eternal remembrance
I'm giving my picture to my beloved friend
Sokol Aharon
comrade Kaplun Yitskhak (Yatza(?) Yaza(?))

The Fighting Jewish Kibbutz named after Dr. Atlas

Aqua Santa
Italy
9 March 1946
See you in Israel [written along the left margin]
[Comments]
There is a term of parting in Hebrew (also in German and French) which expressing hope for a future meeting using the verb to see. I translated it as "see you" - though somehow "see you" sounds more flippant.

Sometimes, before the state was founded it was called "The Land of Israel" - "The Land" or for short. I translated it as Israel - the land, not state, which did not exist back then,

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