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Letters

[The letter reproduced below was sent to a Polish attorney
recommended by the World Jewish Congress, according to a letter
received by AR from the WJC dated 11/22/48, referring to a previous
communication from him regarding restitution of the Rothstein family
property in Pelcovizna following World War Two. He was urged to
hasten his action, as the deadline for filing claims in Poland was
12/31/48. It is not known what, if any, response came from Poland to
AR’s letter, but the property, according to information later received by
his grandson Jordan, was claimed by a person probably descended from
another of Moshe Itzel’s children. Note that the names of AR’s paternal
aunts differ slightly from those given by his sister Rivka to Jordan when
the genealogy was drawn.]

Los Angeles
December 1, 1948
Mr. Ludwik Gutmacher
Ul. Wilenska 19
Warszawa, Poland

Dear Sir:

Upon the recommendation of the World Jewish Congress in New
York, I would like to give you power of attorney to claim property of
relatives who perished in the Nazi invasion of Poland. As they have
never been heard from since that time I am sure they were all killed.
The said properties are located on Ul. Modlinska 33, Warszawa 9.
As I recollect these properties (on which I lived as a boy), they were
in Pelcovizna, Gmin Brudna, about three miles out of Praga, near the
Nadvishleinski railroad station. They faced the highway and in the
rear extended to the Vistula River. They consisted of approximately
seven acres and included several houses.
This property, in the family for more than a hundred years, was
left by my grandfather, Moishe Isaac Rothstein, to four sons and
three daughters, all of whom lived on the property with their families.
The following were my uncles: Berl, Yudel, Chaim, and (my father)
David Rothstein. The aunts were Sarah Kupic, Riquel Webb, and
Chava (I do not recall her married name). Before the Nazi holocaust
my two sisters and their families lived there. They were Chaia

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