Testimonial letter from Magda Herber

This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.

This letter is from Magda Herber. It is "Exhibit A-368" in the Noles collection.

The original letter was handwritten in German, a text transcription has not yet been created. A text version of its translation has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription.

The image in the text box links to a pdf file with the original letter, the translation, and a notary statement attesting to the validity of the translation. It has 3 pages.

translation Magda Herber Gross Flottbeker Str 3 2000 Hamburg 52 Hamburg 20.7.83 To Whom It May Concern My name is Magda Herber. I am a housewife, sixty-eight years old. Two of my three daughters, and two of my three grandchildren, and my son-in-law, lieutenant colonel in the German army, have been Bhagwan’s sannyasins for three years now. I have noticed a positive change in the children and grandchildren through Bhagwan’s teachings. All of them are content and happier. I am very grateful to Bhagwan for that. I have read three books by Bhagwan and listened to a few of his lectures. I am very deeply impressed by what has been achieved on the Ranch in Oregon over the last two years. I consider Bhagwan as a spiritual teacher who should be supported and not sent away. Magda Herber [notary stuff]

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