Letter to Lerner Family about Belgorod Deciphering Address to Facilitate Emigration of Dr. Schapira (1972)
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lerner: I wonder if you could help me in a small matter, which is really a very great matter. I am trying to help an elderly rabbi in Israel to get his son and his family out of Russia. In order to do this, I have been sending telegrams to many personalities and I want to continue to do this. One of the people I have been asked to write to is the head of the Ovir office in Belgorod. I enclose the xerox copy of part of the rabbi's letter to me in which he writes out the name and address of this person. However, I am not sure about the exact spelling because of his non-American handwriting.Would you, therefore, be kind enough to write out this information for me carefully so that I might be able to send a telegram to him too?Incidentally, I have asked Mr. Irving Kobrin to request from as many people as possible to allow me to use their names An this telegram. If you can get some people out of The Center to agree to this, I would be deeply grateful.All best wishes.Cordially,Rabbi Norman LammNL:cwP.S. I am enclosing a copy of the telegram we are sending.