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51. Vilna ghetto entertainer, Chayele Rosenthal recreates her role as the ghetto street peddler Yisrolik in postwar Paris.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 42754
Date:
1950
…Vilna ghetto entertainer, Chayele Rosenthal recreates her role as the ghetto street peddler Yisrolik in postwar Paris.…
52. 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…
53. Students from the Yiddish Teachers' Seminary act out a scene from David and Goliath at an "ethnographic" evening at the YIVO Institute in Vilna.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 42661
Date:
1928 April 21
…Students from the Yiddish Teachers' Seminary act out a scene from David and Goliath at an "ethnographic" evening at the YIVO Institute in Vilna.…
54. Abba Kovner (center) poses with Ruska Korczak (left) and Vitka Kempner (right) on a street in Vilna the day of the city's liberation.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 76842
Date:
Circa 1944 July 13
…Abba Kovner (center) poses with Ruska Korczak (left) and Vitka Kempner (right) on a street in Vilna the day of the city's liberation.…
55. 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).…
56. Manfeld family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.234.1
…The collection consists of 19 photographs of the Manfeld family in Vilna, Poland, (now Vilnius, Lithuania) before World War II.…
57. Syma Crane papers
1997.A.0373 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0373
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
…Syma Crane (b. 1921) was born in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wilno, Poland) to Chaim and Basia Minc. Syma’s parents and sisters Sonja Minc Lipofsky and Chaya…
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 … Vilnius in 1941 to Kobe and Shanghai and eventual arrival in London. Languages: English, German, Yiddish, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian Administrative…
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58. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
… closeknit, extended family. The Slowes family moved to Vilna in 1914, where his father Mosze became head of the dentistry school at Vilna University. Salomon…
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 …-Joch and Bleṭer ṿegn Ṿilne: zamlbukh have been incorporated into the rare books collection of the Museum’s library. The lirary also holds German and…
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59. 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…
60. 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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61. Oral history interview with Masha Rolnikaite
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.436.2 | RG Number: RG-50.853.0001
Date:
interview: 2006 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The donation of 2006 consists of: 1 notebook [poetry and song lyrics composed by Masha Rolnikaite, in Yiddish, while in the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto…
62. 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.…
63. Oral history interview with Lucy Cripps
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.253.228 | RG Number: RG-90.063.0228
Date:
interview: 2012 March 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lucy Cripps, born on June 20, 1922 in Vilnius, Lithuania, discusses her experiences during the Holocaust.…
64. 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…
65. Allen and Jenny Zuman photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.183.1
Date:
undated: 
…The collection consists of four photographs of Jenny Solomson Zuman's family in Vilna, Poland (currently Vilnius, Lithuania), all victims of the…
66. 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.…
67. 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…
68. 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…
69. Oral history interview with Samuel Bak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.541.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0997
Date:
interview: 2018 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Samuel Bak discusses being a child in the ghetto in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania); receiving art lessons in the ghetto; and how the ghetto…
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 … 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:24,580 I was born in Vilna, Wilno, Vilnius. 34 00:01:24,580 --> 00:01:29,020 It's a city that's already the number of the name…
70. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.524 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0524
Date:
interview: 1994 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abram Shnaper, born on May 15, 1918 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), discusses the Vilna ghetto underground; his capture by the Germans…
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 …: 1 vol. (unpaged) English Restrictions: None SUMMARY Abram Shnaper was born in Vilna, Poland May 15, 1918. His detailed testimony includes pre- ghetto…
71. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.523 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0523
Date:
interview: 1981 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Abram Shnaper, born on May 15, 1918 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), discusses the Vilna ghetto underground; his capture by the Germans…
72. 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…
73. Oral history interview with Itzchak Dugin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.187 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0187
Date:
interview: 1994 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Itzchak Dugin, born in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania in 1916, discusses his family life; working as a printer until 1941; the Germans arriving in Vilna…
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 … RG-50.120 #187 DUGIN, ITZCHAK - Itzchak Dugin was born in Vilna (Vilnius) in 1916. His family was middle class, father owned a bar. They were 5…
74. Nazi arrest warrant
Document | Accession Number: 1997.54
Date:
issue: 1942 August 19
…The Nazi arrest warrant was issued by an official in the ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania, to arrest a Jewish woman in the ghetto.…
75. Levin and Kulmanas families' papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.268.1
Date:
1934-2000
…The papers consist of a birth certificate for "Abram Levin" [donor's husband] issued by the Rabbinate of Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania); a…
76. Abraham and Simone Slowes collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.355
Date:
inclusive: circa 1905-1991
… to Vilna and settled on 30 Wielka Street. Moshe became the head of the School of Dentistry in Vilna. They had a traditional Jewish home and spoke…
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 … collection. .1 Photograph; portrait of Abraham Yehuda Slowes; location: Vilna, Poland; dated: September 26, 1928 .2 Photograph; portrait of Abraham Yehuda…
77. 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…
78. Oral history interview with Janina Kukulski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.48 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0048
Date:
interview: 1988 February 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Janina Kukulski, born in 1932 in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), describes growing up in Vilnius where her father at one point hid 150 Jews in a…
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 … Jews in a building in Vilna. He was eventually killed in a concentration camp. Janina herself was only seven in 1939 and often cites her youth as the…
79. Oral history interview with Selma Blick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.940 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0940
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Selma Blick (née Wahrhaftig), born June 29, 1927, discusses her childhood in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Biesko-Biala, Poland; Polish pre…
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 …: Selma Blick (nee Wahrhaftig) was born in Wilno, Poland on 6/29/1927. Her father, Oswald, son of Ignacy and Pepi (Katz) Wahrhaftig, owned a hotel, and her…
80. 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…
81. Szapiro family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2013.394.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
… (later Helen Szapiro) was born in Pruzhany on August 17, 1917. Around 1935 she moved to Vilna to live with her aunt. She married within a few months of her…
82. Cila Rudashevsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.441.1
Date:
1945-1948
…Cilia Rudashevsky (born Cilia Jurer, 1934-2012) was the daughter of Avraham Jurer and Rosa Rudashevsky. Her parents, originally from Vilna, moved to…
83. Rene and Raya Karschon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.330.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
… Levin, Rene Karschon's wife, in Switzerland from her relatives in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) (dated 1938-1941). Also includes postcards and…
84. 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…
85. Oral history interview with Beba Leventhal and anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1572 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1572
Date:
interview: 1981 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Beba Leventhal discusses her experiences in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), during WWII; living for two years in the Vilna ghetto; spending…
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 …RG-50.477.1572 Summary Beba Leventhal was born in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). During the war she was in The Vilna ghetto for two years…
86. 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…
87. Oral history interview with Liudmila Danauskienė
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.226 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0226
Date:
interview: 2009 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vilnius (Lithuania)…
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 … esat sena vilnietė. Ar pasikeitė Vilnius, kai jame neliko žydų? Liudmila Dainauskienė: Grįžo iš Rusijos. Kai atėjo rusai, pradėjo grįžti žydai. Žydai…
88. 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…
89. Oral history interview with Rachel Gliksman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.189 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0189
Date:
interview: 1994 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rachel Gliksman (née Halperin), born in May 1924 in Vilna (Vilnius) Lithuania, discusses her family life; attending Tarbut school and belonging to…
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 … RG.50-120 *0189 3 Tapes GLIKSMAN, RACHEL Born May 1924 to Rosa and Schmuel Halperin in Vilnius. Family very well-to-do in the paint and turpentine…
90. 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…
91. Tree trunk from the Rudniki Forest
Object | Accession Number: 1992.100.8
Date:
use: approximately 1943 September-approximately 1944 June
…Vilnius (Lithuania)…
92. Tree trunk from the Rudniki Forest
Object | Accession Number: 1992.100.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943 September-approximately 1944 June
…Vilnius (Lithuania)…
93. Oral history interview with Rochelle Slivka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0026
Date:
interview: 1998 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rochelle Slivka, born in 1922 in Vilnius, Lithuania, discusses her family and early life in Poland; how her friends and neighbors turned on the…
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 …; daily life in the Vilna ghetto; her fathers position as a Jewish Judenrat; the resistance movement within Vilna; the liquidation of Vilna; being separated…
94. Oral history interview with Litman Mor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.107 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0107
Date:
interview: 1992 August 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Litman Mor, born in 1917, in David-Gorodok, Belarus, describes his schooling at Hebrew school; being in the Zionist youth movement; going to Vilna…
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 … who, though aware of the Gentiles’ hostility, did not feel inferior. 1.47 to 2.13 Life in Vilna. At age 14 [1931] he left for Vilna to attend an…
95. 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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 …RG-50.120 #0219 4 Tapes TENET, SHLOMO 1.00 Shlomo Kenet [nee Kanterowitz] was born in Vilna in 1921. He had a sister, Batya. His parents were Yakov…
96. Oral history interview with Lily Margules
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.84 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0084
Date:
interview: 1992 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lily Margules discusses her family’s experiences during the Holocaust; the three layers of Jewish society in her village of Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania…
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 … in her village of Vilna; young Zionists who wanted to make Hebrew a living language, assimilated Jews who spoke Russian and Polish, and people who…
97. 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…
98. 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…
99. 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…
100. 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…