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1. Shoag family papers
2017.334. 1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2017.334.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1997
bulk: 1939-1940
… circumstances pertaining to the Shoag family as well as to the local Wilno Jewish community at large. In 1934 Wolf managed to secure his immigration to the…
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 … Lewin in Jeannette, letters to Wolf from his father Moses and his sister Roza in Wilno before they perished in the Holocaust, and Wolf’s immigration…
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2. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
… met someone who looked just like her. In that way, Tema discovered that her twin sister Eta had survived and immigrated to the United States. In 1957…
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 …, immigration documents, publications, and photographs. There is some material related to relatives the Ratafia family of Warsaw, Poland as well as Tema’s family…
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3. Markon family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.642.1
Date:
1927-1974
…Oswiez (Alexander/Sasha, 1905-1989) Markon, was born in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania. He immigrated to France in the 1920s. From 1927-1929, he…
4. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers
1994.A.0455.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0455.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1946
… even though he knew no English. In early 1942 Japanese forces attacked Burma, and Jakob fled to Kolkata and Mumbai, India. He immigrated to the United…
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 …, permits, immigration records, and an immunization certificate documenting his prewar life in Warsaw and escape to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and then, with…
5. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
… brothers, Elliot Helmut and Joseph Wolfgang. David and Rachel married in 1928, and co-owned a bedding business. His family had all planned on immigrating to…
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 … immigrating to Palestine, beginning with his grandparents in 1934. Carl’s parents divorced around 1935, and David returned to Romania, where he was born and had…
6. Syma Crane papers
1997.A.0373 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0373
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… to Yugoslavia in 1947. She immigrated to the United States in 1950, divorced Marcus, and married George (Katz) Crane, a fellow Holocaust survivor from…
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 … to Yugoslavia in 1947. She immigrated to the United States in 1950, divorced Marcus, and married George (Katz) Crane, a fellow Holocaust survivor from…
7. Meir and Paula Stein diaries and photographs
2008.300.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2008.300.2
Date:
creation: 1943-1945
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…. Meir attempted to obtain paperwork to immigrate to Palestine, but they were interned in the Vilna ghetto before the papers were approved. In 1941, the…
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 … fled from Warsaw to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) which was under Soviet rule. Meir attempted to obtain paperwork to immigrate to Palestine, but they were…
8. Joseph Harmatz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.193
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1948
… immigration to Palestine). Joseph was assigned the task of creating a secure Bricha route from Poland to Romania. Shortly after reaching Bucharest, Joseph was…
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 … sailed to Palestine on SS Wedgwood, imprisoned by the British as illegal immigrants); dated: June 26, 1946; location: Athlit, Palestine .8 Photographic…
9. William Begell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.40.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1947
bulk: 1930-1947
…Emigration and immigration--United States.…
10. Group portrait of Polish Jewish refugees in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 42659
Date:
1943
… continued on to Berlin, where he stayed for the next two years. In October 1948 he immigrated to the United States by way of France on board the SS Radnik…
11. Group portrait of members of the Vilna ghetto Jewish police.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64119
Date:
1941 - 1943
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
12. Jewish officials of the Vilna ghetto are seated in the audience at a sporting event.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64117
Date:
1941 - 1943
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
13. Jewish and Lithuanian police guard the entrance to the Vilna ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64118
Date:
1941 - 1943
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
14. Death announcement in Yiddish for Vilna Jewish police chief Ferdinand Beigel.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64125
Date:
1943 September 04
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
15. Group portrait of the staff of the coffee house in the Vilna ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64115
Date:
1941 - 1943
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
16. Death announcement in Yiddish for Vilna Jewish police chief Ferdinand Beigel.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64126
Date:
1943 September 04
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
17. Ghetto police chief Ferdinand Beigel writes in a ledger at his desk in the Vilna ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64120
Date:
1941 - 1943
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
18. Portrait of the Beigel family in the Vilna ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64122
Date:
1941 - 1943
…, Wilhelm finished high school (first in Munich and then in Dillinger an der Donau). In June 1947, with the help of an uncle in New York City, he immigrated…
19. Three members of the Paper Brigade pose together on a balcony in the Vilna ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64900
Date:
July 1943
… in Poland and Paris, they immigrated to Palestine in 1947. There, he began a literary career and continued his advocacy for the Yiddish language. He…
20. Avraham Sutzkever (right) and his friend Shmerke Kaczerginski sit on a terrace within the Vilna ghetto.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 64899
Date:
1943
… in Poland and Paris, they immigrated to Palestine in 1947. There, he began a literary career and continued his advocacy for the Yiddish language. He…