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1. Oral history interview with Gidon Arye
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0326 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0009
Date:
interview: 1989 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gidon Arye, born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1928, describes growing up in an upper middle class family; moving into the Vilnius ghetto in 1941 and…
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 … Vilna, into an upper middle class family. At the time, approximately one third of Vilna’s residents were Jews. He lived with his father, a well…
2. Gurwicz family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.159.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
… teacher and bookseller. His mother, Szifra Tajtelbaum Gurwicz, was a housewife. The Gurwicz family with their six children moved to Vilna, Poland in 1918…
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 …-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org INVENTORY: 1. Photographic postcard of 6th grade students in the Jewish school for girls in Vilna…
3. Towarzystwo Popierania Żydowskiej Sztuki Scenicznej w Wilnie (Fond 296)
Document | Accession Number: 2021.21.1 | RG Number: RG-26.072
Date:
bulk: 1919-1941
inclusive: 1913-1941
Alternate Title:
Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts in Vilnius
…Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts in Vilnius…
4. Sender Wajsman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-26.001
Date:
1936-1991
…Contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding gathering in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1936; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing…
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 … History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Biographical Note Sender Wajsman is a native of Vilnius (a.k.a. Wilno, Vilna), Lithuania, and a survivor of the Holocaust. He…
5. Oral history interview with Zew Budansky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.15 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0015
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vilnius (Lithuania)…
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 … ghettoes was lieutenant. He liberated and saw the following ghettoes, labor camps and concentration camp. In Russia he saw the Vilna Ghetto, he was in the…
6. Antoni Czerniewski papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.396.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1956
…Documents: relating to Antoni Czerniewski (donor's late father) a graduate of the Wilno (Vilnius) University and Warsaw Academy of Arts; Lieutenant…
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 … Josef and Stefani Czerniewski, issued by the City Hall in Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) on April 30, 1930. Antoni Czerniewski was a student at the…
7. Oral history interview with Emanuel Tanay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.9 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0009
Date:
interview: approximately 1987 March 16
publication/distribution: approximately
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dr. Emanuel Tanay, born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1928, describes living in Miechow, Poland before the war; living in the Miechow…
8. Jorek Blocher papers
1988.92.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 140
Document | Accession Number: 1988.92.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1963
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… he was sheltered and fed for nine months by Konstantyn and Elena Dąbrowski and their five children who lived in an isolated cottage near Wilno, Poland…
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 …, Poland (now Michališki, Belarus) and being hidden by the Dąbrowski family in an isolated cottage near Vilna. The newspaper clipping is a 1963 article in…
9. Oral history interview with Alexander Bogen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.21 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0021
Date:
interview: 1992 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alexander Bogen, born in 1916 in Vilna, Poland (present day Vilnius, Lithuania), discusses the bombing of Vilna; the German invasion and occupation…
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 …RG-50.120*021 Bogen, Alexander Tape 1 of 3 Wrote book “Revolt” (in library) 1.00 Born in Vilna in 1916. Parents were doctors. He studied in the Fine…
10. Oral history interview with Marian Maciejewski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.186 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0186
Date:
interview: 2003 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marian Maciejewski, born in 1922 in Wilno, Poland (present day Vilnius, Lithuania), describes his work as a conductor of a train; witnessing how Jews…
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 …Maciejewski, Marian RG‐50.488.0186, born Dec. 13, 1922 in Wilno , interview 07/12/2003, length: 106 min. Localities : Wilno, Palemonas, Ponary…
11. Oral history interview with Aron Derman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0299
Date:
interview: 1994 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; going to the Hrodna ghetto in Belarus to reunite with Lisa; establishing connections outside of the ghetto and escaping to Vilnius, Lithuania in March…
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 … another friend of mine, to go to Wilno, from Slonim to Wilno, which is approximately, I don’t know, maybe 200 kilometers. So, we went for train, and they…
12. Oral history interview with Shlomo Yashuner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.171 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0171
Date:
interview: 1992 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shlomo Yashuner, born in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in 1919, discusses his family life; Hashomer Hatzair activities; events in Ponar (Panieri Woods…
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 …YASHUNER, Shlomo RG-50.120*171 2 Tapes Abstract Shlomo Yashuner was born in Vilna in 1919. He talks about restrictions and annihilation of Jews in…
13. 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
…Tema Ratafia (1925-2013, later Tema de Ratafia) was born in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Moise Ginzburg (b. 1886) and Rachel Rubenstein…
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 … number: 2005.198.1 Creator: Ratafia, Tema (Vilnius :Lithuania) Additional creator: Ratafia, Lazarz (Warsaw :Poland) Extent: 1 linear foot (3 boxes…
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14. 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
…Wolf Shoag (Szoag, 1906-1983) was born in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) to parents Moses and Fagel (née Kozlovsky) on December 24, 1906. He had…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended Shoag family of Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) and…
15. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
…Teodor Scheres (Tuvia Sheres) was born on February 6, 1920, in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania), to Jewish parents Efraim and Peshe (Pesia) Liliansky…
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 …, Tuvia (Vilnius :Lithuania) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
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16. Oral history interview with Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0399
Date:
interview: 1999 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinskaya, born on January 23, 1928 in Vilnius, Lithuania, describes her early wartime experiences; her family’s move into the…
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 … also have a nickname. A: I have a nickname, Luda. Q: Okay. Can you tell us where and when you were born? A: I was born -- I was born in Wilna. Wilna was…
17. Oral history interview with Chanoch Vilenchik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.306 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0306
Date:
interview: 1996 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Chanoch Vilenchik, born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1920, describes being the oldest of five children; attending a Jewish…
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 …RG-50.120*0306 Vilenchik, Chanoch – 1 Tape 1:00 He was born in 1920 in Vilnius, the oldest of 5 children. His father was a cobbler. He went to a…
18. Privati mišri žydų mokytojų seminarija „Tarbut“ Vilniuje (Fond 222)
Document | Accession Number: 2021.26.1 | RG Number: RG-26.077
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1939
Alternate Title:
Prywatne Hebrajskie Koedukacyjne Seminarium Nauczycielskie „Tarbut“ w Wilnie
Private Hebrew Teachers Seminary “Tarbut” in Wilno, Poland
…Private Hebrew Teachers Seminary “Tarbut” in Wilno, Poland…
19. Oral history interview with Mira Warbin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.165 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0165
Date:
interview: 1993 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Mira Warbin, born in Vilna, Lithuania, on October 25, 1919, discusses her family life; pre-war antisemitism; going to Częstochowa, Poland to the…
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 …RG-50.120#165 Warbin, Mira Tape 1 of 3 1.01.41 Mira Warbin, nee Schvetzki, was born in Vilna on October 25, 1919. The testimony was given only 8…
20. Presentation by Shep Zitler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.4 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0004
Date:
interview: 1998 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shep (né Sheapel) Zitler, born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1917, discusses his family; his experience in the Polish Army during World…