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1. Pair of Japanese geta owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.3_a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
…Sara Kupinski (later Cohen, 1932- ?) was born in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Eliasz (Eli, 1897-?) and Slawa (1902…
2. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Sara Kupinski (later Cohen, 1932- ?) was born in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Eliasz (Eli, 1897-?) and Slawa (1902…
3. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
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Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
…Sara Kupinski (later Cohen, 1932- ?) was born in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Eliasz (Eli, 1897-?) and Slawa (1902…
4. Oral history interview with Boris Nemko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.294 | RG Number: RG-50.678.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… by the Russian Army; his return to Vilna; going to Poland where he found devastation; discovering that no none from his family survived the war; the…
5. Oral history interview with Irving Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.130 | RG Number: RG-50.548.0001
Date:
interview: 2001 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Irving Goldberg describes his childhood experiences in Poland and life in the Vilna ghetto.…
6. Oral history interview with Shlomo Levin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.305 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0305
Date:
interview: 1996 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shlomo Levin, born in the early 1930s in Kovno, Poland (Kaunas, Lithuania), describes his well-educated parents; being in a Betar youth group; the…
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 … how he was murdered on his way back to Poland. He was considered a collaborator. 22:20:27 Shlomo describes the importance of Israel and his vow to…
7. Leo Melamed collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.157.2
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1941
…Lejb Melamdowicz (later Melamed) was born on March 20, 1932, to Fejga and Icchok Melamdowicz in Bialystok, Poland. His father Icchok was a member of…
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 … Melamed) of Białystok, Poland. Also included are blank postcards from Japan; a notebook kept by Leo Melamed containing Lithuanian words and their Yiddish…
8. Oral history interview with Shep Zitler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.10 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0010
Date:
interview: 2004 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… began; antisemitism in the army; being classified as Lithuanian (and Lithuania was not at war with Germany); being sent to a labor camp following Poland…
9. Tenenwurzel family photographs
2018.654.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2018.654.1
…Bunim Tenenwurzel (1904-1943) was born in Kielce, Poland to Hershel and Khava Tenenwurzel in 1904. He married Betty Kovarsky (b. December 30, 1910…
10. 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…
11. Oral history interview with Liza Silbert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.68 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0068
Date:
interview: 1988 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Liza Silbert (née Gittleman), born August 10, 1922 in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), describes growing up in a middle class home; her father…
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 …Time-coded notes for Interview with Liza Silbert June 26, 1988 :80 - 1:40 Liza Silbert comes from Poland, from the city of Vilna. She grew up in a…
12. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Sara Kupinski (later Cohen, 1932- ?) was born in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Eliasz (Eli, 1897-?) and Slawa (1902…
13. Oral history interview with Lily Margules
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0150
Date:
interview: 1990 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her deportation to Kaiserwald, where she worked in the Dienewerke factory; her transfer by boat to the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland and then to…
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 … Q: We're on camera. A: Yes. Q: Would you tell me your name please? A: My name is Lily Margules, and I was born April 19, 1924, in Vilno, Poland…
14. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
…Sara Kupinski (later Cohen, 1932- ?) was born in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Eliasz (Eli, 1897-?) and Slawa (1902…
15. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… trucks and trains for the battalion’s departure in Würzburg, Germany, their accommodations in Frödau, Poland, soldiers playing soccer, and their encamped…
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 … trains for the battalion’s departure in Würzburg, Germany, their accommodations in Frödau, Poland, soldiers playing soccer, and their encamped in a forest…
16. Rosenszajn, Herszkowicz, and Dworzecka families papers
1999.271.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.271.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1948
…, Poland where she met Izak Rozenszajn. After the start of World War II, they fled to Białystok, Poland which was located within the Soviet sector. Their…
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 …, Herszkowicz, and Dworzecka families papers relate to the pre-war and wartime experiences of the Rosenzajn family of Pinsk, Poland and Białystok, Poland; the…
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  • Series 2: Photographs Approximate 1908-Approximate 1948
    • File 1: Photographs of Maria Dworzecka (born Marysia Rozenszajn) 1944-1948
    • File 3: Photographs of the Dworzecka / Dworzecki family Approximate 1908-Approximate 1937
17. Oral history interview with Sylvia Malcmacher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.34 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0034
Date:
interview: 1985 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sylvia Malchmacher, born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1926, describes the Jewish community in Vilna, including the many synagogues…
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 … her time was in Poland. This project is sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section. Sylvia, we'll start at the start. Tell us…
18. Oral history interview with Leon Senders
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.69 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0069
Date:
interview: 1988 April 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Leon Senders (Lazar Sederovich), born in March 19, 1923 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), describes his father, who was a socialist and bid…
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 … camps in Poland, Prague, and Vienna Went to Salzburg , married, crossed over the Alps to join his surviving sister in Milan Learned typewriter mechanics…
19. 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
… Latvia, in September 1943; working in the Juglas Manufactura, a textile factory; her internment in Stutthof, a concentration camp in Poland, where she…
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 … Poland when I was born, belonged to Poland, on the 23rd of January, 1928. Q: And where did you live in Wilna? A: I lived on the street called Polnarska…
20. Oral history interview with Tzila Prusak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.322 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0322
Date:
interview: 1997 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.…
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 …. Her mother died prior to liberation. After the war, Tzila wandered through parts of Russia, Poland, and German in Berlin and Munich bartering and…