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1. 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…
2. Oral history interview with Fania Brancovskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.453.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0987
Date:
interview: 2018 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vilnius (Lithuania)…
3. Arrest and release notices from the Jewish prison in the Vilnius ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0076 | RG Number: RG-05.007.01
Date:
1942
…Arrest and release notices from the Jewish prison in the Vilnius ghetto…
4. Rabinowitsch family papers
2011.443.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 94
Document | Accession Number: 2011.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
…-1948, and the handwritten journal kept by Gabriel Rabinowitsch while in hiding near the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto between November 1943 and June 1944. In…
5. Sylvia Malcmacher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.366.1
Date:
inclusive: 1991-2015
…Sylvia Malcmacher was born Zlata Distel in Wilno (Vilnius), Poland (now Lithuania) on July 9, 1926. She was one of three daughters. In October 1941…
6. Jewish medical resistance in the Vilnius ghetto during the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0397
…Jewish medical resistance in the Vilnius ghetto during the Holocaust…
7. Albert and Alice Genis collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.35.1
Date:
approximately 1924-1958
bulk: 1941-1958
…Vilna (Poland)…
8. Simon Goldsmith photographs
2013.172.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.172.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1949
…Simon Goldsmith was born in Vilnius, Lithuania on October 25, 1918 to Moshe and Chaja Leah Goldsmith. Simon had three brothers: Joseph, Pinchas, and…
9. W.H. Kessel letters
Document | Accession Number: 2011.315.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1941
…Consists of color photocopies of two letters, dated April 1940 and March 1941, which were sent from Frejda Brojdo, of Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, to…
10. List of Vilnius Residents and Refugees looking for Relatives
2017.402.4 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.4
Date:
circa 1947-circa 1948
…List of Vilnius Residents and Refugees looking for Relatives…
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11. Map of Vilna ghetto
2003.290.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2003.290.1
…Map of Vilna ghetto…
12. Leon Kliot memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2016.316.1
Date:
creation: 1982
Alternate Title:
Portrait of a Nazi War Victim: #5567
…Leon Kliot was born in 1929 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Before World War II, Kliot owned a hardware business, married, and had a child…
13. Sarah Radzeli photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1940
…Louis Radzeli was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). His parents were Moishe and Ita Radzeli, and he had at least one sibling who…
14. HaShomer Hatzair illustrated album
Document | Accession Number: 2011.418.3
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1931
… activities of a Hashomer Hatzair Jewish youth group in Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, between 1928 and 1931.…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. William Begell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.40.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1947
bulk: 1930-1947
…Wilhelm Beigel was born on May 18, 1927, in Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Ferdinand, born on June 25, 1899, in Lemberg, Austria (L…
18. Arbeitspolizei arrest announcement
Document | Accession Number: 1989.1030 | RG Number: RG-10.384
Date:
undated: 
…The announcement of arrest was issued by the Arbeitspolizei in the ghetto in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania).…
19. 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…
20. 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…