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1. 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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2. John and Melanie Balzer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.19
Date:
1939-1943
…The papers consist of two warrants issued in the ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania (Vilna, Poland), and one questionnaire ("Fragebogen") for a medical…
3. Meir Shapiro family photographs
2013.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2013.227.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1947
… Vilno, Poland (currently Vilnius, Lithuania). Neither woman survived the Holocaust. Miriam was killed in the Ponary Forest in 1941 and Musia was killed…
4. 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…
5. 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
… born on June 11, 1910 to Jakub and Helena Dworzecki. He had two siblings: Wita (b. 1912) and Lulek (b. 1914). They lived in Vilna, Poland (now Vilna…
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 … Herszkowicz family of Łódź, Poland; and the Dworzecki family of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). The families’ papers include studio portraits and candid…
6. Albert and Alice Genis collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.35.1
Date:
approximately 1924-1958
bulk: 1941-1958
…Vilna (Poland)…
7. Oral history interview with Stanley Kiersnowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.349.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0737
Date:
interview: 2014 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanley Kiersnowski, born on August 17, 1926 in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), discusses his family’s well-to-do background; the history of and…
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 … a clinic in Wilno-- at that time, it was Poland- - on August 17, 1926. OK. And my mother was very happy, because they couldn't exchange me. Because I…
8. Oral history interview with Clara Ma'ayan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.96 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0096
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) in January 1940; her father’s death from dysentery; obtaining false documents from the Japanese ambassador stationed in…
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 … Poland. 37.00 Contact with Clara’s family. 42.00 January 1940. Arrival in Vilna. Others who arrived: shimon Bergman, Moritz Skidelsky. 43.59 Aiding Clara…
9. Oral history interview with Tova Gurevitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.54 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0054
Date:
interview: 1992 August 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tova Gurevitz, born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), describes her observant family and their life in Vilna; the occupation of Vilna on…
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 …RG-50.120*0054 Gurevitch, Tova Tape 1 of 3 1.01 Born in Vilna, Poland and was the youngest of five children. The family was middle-class (in the…
10. Oral history interview with Tania Rozmaryn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0418 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0067
Date:
interview: 1997 February 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tania Rozmaryn, born on June 16, 1928 in Vilnius, Poland (present day Lithuania), discusses her family as strong Zionists; the changes that took…
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 …:36,320 because Smorgon and Vilna were occupied by Poland since World 137 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,940 War I. And basically, it was going from…
11. Oral history interview with Shlomo Kenet
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.219 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0219
Date:
interview: 1995 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shlomo Kenet (né Kanterowitz), born in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1921, discusses his childhood years; attending hachsharah (agricultural…
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 … freely back to theirhousesin eastern Poland. S's group numbered 8 people. 34.00 The way back to Vilna. Crossing the Buk river, and the encounter with…
12. 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…
13. 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
…Frieda Rosner (née Fryda Zeidshnur, 1930-2000) was born on 4 July 1930 in Wilno, Poland (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania) to Zelman (1895-1960) and…
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 … experiences of his wife Frieda Rosner and her parents Zelman and Judith Zeidshnur of Wilno, Poland (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania). Included are biographical…
14. Oral history interview with Daniel Avidar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.238 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0238
Date:
interview: 1995 April 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Daniel Avidar, born in 1931 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), describes being the youngest of five children in an affluent family; attending…
15. Leo Melamed collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.157.2
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1941
… German-Soviet Pact. Icchok did not return home, fearing arrest by the Soviets. He fled to Vilna, Poland, which was occupied by Soviet troops but still…
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 … Soviet Union, per the terms of the German-Soviet Pact. Icchok did not return home, fearing arrest by the Soviets. He fled to Vilna, Poland, which was…
16. 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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 … Traby, Poland (Traby, Belarus), and Jeannette, PA, between the years 1929 and 1940. Included are letters from Wolf Shoag in Wilno to his future wife Ida…
17. Oral history interview with Rachel Bielicka Gurdus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0182 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0400
Date:
interview: 1999 August 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rachel Bielicka Gurdus, born in December 1922 in Vilnius, Lithuania, describes her family and their traditional religious practices; her father…
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 … come to Wilna because you remember that there were a pa -- a pact between Molotov and Hitler and they divided Poland in two, and Wilna get Russia and…
18. Oral history interview with Lucia Shimel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.142 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0142
Date:
interview: 1992 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lucia Shimel (née Pinchuk), born in Minsk, Belarus, describes her family moving to Vilnius, Lithuania after the Russian Revolution; growing up in…
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 … She leaves Monika and goes to Kartuzi, Poland, where she works in the mayor’s office. She meets one of her Vilnius friends who tells her of the fate of…
19. 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
…Lilly Margules, born in April 1924, in Vilnius, Lithuania, describes her family; the death of her mother and going to live with her aunt, father, and…
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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…
20. Oral history interview with George Dynin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.398.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0846
Date:
interview: 2015 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…George Dynin (né Yeszhesh Dynin) on March 19, 1925 in Łódź, Poland, discusses his family; his sister, Aviva Marcella, who was born in 1934; speaking…
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 …, we went this way toward Warsaw. And eventually, we went to the Vilna. OK. And Vilna, by that point that you got there, was no longer Poland but was now…