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1. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta and…
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 … / Administrative history Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta…
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2. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
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 … Latvia until World War 2 A Holocaust Catastrophe in 1944, circa 1880-circa 1993 4.1 Part 2: May 9, 1944 until October 8, 1956, Arrival of Eliazar, Carla…
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3. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris, France (Fond 722)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.518.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.97
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1940
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 … Germany for April 1939 and the situation of Jews in Latvia, Bulgaria and other countries. Letter from President Troper to the Secretary of the Board about…
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4. Pollack family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.426
Date:
1904-1929
…Contains birth certificates of Dorothy Pollack's three aunts, born in Libou, Latvia. Her aunts Sarah and Zelma Mau perished in the Holocaust, while…
5. Beitar group photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2011.418.2
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
…Consists of thirty-one posed group and individual photographs, printed on postcards, depicting members of the Beitar (Betar) movement in Latvia in…
6. Max Michelson photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.560.1
Date:
creation: circa 1890-1947
… the war in Riga, Latvia and in Moscow, USSR; and photographs relating to Max Michelson's emigration from Germany to the United States in 1947.…
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 … the Hirschfeld sisters posing outside, Riga, Latvia, circa 1890. Seated in the front row: Emma Hirschfeld Michelson (d. 1935) and Rosa Hirschfeld Brande…
7. Wlodek Richter collection
2001.201.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2001.201.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1954
…, Latvia where Ester’s sister Rita lived. Wolf later returned to the family and in 1957 they moved to Warsaw, Poland. Wlodek fled Poland in 1970 after a rise…
8. Jacobson and David families papers
2014.424. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.424.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-1959
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Moritz and Berta Jacobson lived in Liepāja, Latvia and had five children: Arthur, Jacob, Issie, Necha (Nanny), and Paula. Nanny remained in Liepāja…
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 … 1895-1959 Accession number: 2014.424.1 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Additional creator: David (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Extent: 0…
9. Sia Hertsberg photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2009.408.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1980
…Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes…
10. Samuel Gotz collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.410.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1933
… Latvia and Lithuania. The photographs depict groups of men and women in formal and informal settings. Includes a photograph album of the 18th Zionist…
11. YiVO Institute in Wilno (Fond 287)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.67 | RG Number: RG-26.056
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1939
Alternate Title:
Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ
… organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia and other countries; records related to the activities of various Jewish…
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 … (YiVO) in Wilno (Vilnius), including correspondence with Jewish organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia…
12. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
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…Emanuel “Manny” Mandel (b. 1936) was born on May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia to Yehudah (Lojos or Lewis, 1904-1994) and Gabriella “Ella” Mandel (nee…
13. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
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…James Georg Lau (1927-2011) was born in Riga, Latvia to a German-Latvian, Harry Lau, and a Jewish mother, Betty (née Firkser) Lau. After their…
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 … diaries written by James Georg Lau between 1939- 1941 and 1944-1953, describing his life in Liepāja Latvia, the Soviet occupation, being forced out of…
14. Sheva Vapne collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.167.1
Date:
1920-2008
…Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Sheva Latvinsky Vapne, originally of Riga, Latvia…
15. Brenner and Levenstein family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.329.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
…Consists of 36 photographs taken of the Brenner family, originally of Riga, Latvia, between 1920-1940. Includes photographs of trips, weddings, and…
16. "Harry's Life"
Document | Accession Number: 2006.138
Date:
1926-2006
… his post-war life. Mr. Goodman discovered after the war that his parents and sister had been deported to Riga, Latvia, in 1941 and had perished in…
17. Serebrenik family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.559.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-circa 2018
…’s father died before the war. His mother Regina was deported from Vienna to Riga, Latvia on 11 January 1942 where she likely perished. Regina’s brother…
18. Reichskanzlei (Fond 1235)
Document | Accession Number: 2002.553.5 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.69
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1945
Alternate Title:
Reich Chancellery
…Reports of the German occupation authorities, clippings from newspapers, etc. about the political situation in Latvia and Estonia; notes, orders and…
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 … occupation authorities, clippings from newspapers, etc. about the political situation in Latvia and Estonia; notes, orders and correspondence of political and…
19. Nathan Rohloff photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.251.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
…Nathan Rohloff (Natan Roloff) was Dagmar Phillips and Aviva Zylberberg’s paternal grandfather. The Roloff family lived in Riga, Latvia and Natan was…
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 … scouts; location: Riga, Latvia; in Latvian .2 Photographic postcard; with symbol of scouts and words of scouts oath; verso: blue ink stamp of photographer…
20. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
…Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) was born on April 2, 1908, in Liepāja, Latvia, to a Jewish couple, Abram and Basia Brandt. He had one sister named…
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 … Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps…