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Letter 2: Ibi & Val Ginsburg

Dear Friend,

My name is Ibi Ginsburg and my husband is called Waldemar. We live in Yorkshire. I am 83 years old and Wal is 85. That’s quite an age between us. But we weren’t always this old. I grew up in Hungary and Wal grew up in Lithuania.

When I was a teenager I was very creative. I loved to make things with my hands. I was very good at sewing and designing clothes. I also had a beautiful voice and I loved to sing, you see my father was a cantor – the chap who has a wonderful voice and sings in a synagogue.

I had four younger sisters and we came from an orthodox Jewish family. My mother didn’t work as she was looking after me and my sisters.

We all lived happily at home until tragedy and disaster happened.

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