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Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania (RG-4-2)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.113 | RG Number: RG-68.163

Overview

Description: Circulars, publications, activities reports, Benjamin Grinboim archive, including reports on the situation of the Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania in 1938 and his correspondence, the kibbutz training (Hakshara), information brochures and journals "Ziv", "Al Hamishmar" from 1927-1930, Akiva Wonhozker 's papers on children's house (Kinderhaus) in Kovno, reports on Jewish scouts movement in Kovno, Yaakov Amit's correspondence and legacy, Yekheskel Ben Tour memoirs on Ponevezh (Panevėžys ), 1922-1934, and national conference reports.
Subtitle: השומר הצעיר בליטא
Date: inclusive: 1922-1980
Collection Creator: Lietuvos Z?ydu? kultu?ros draugija

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew Yiddish
Genre/Form: Minutes. Reports. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Newspapers. Correspondence.
Extent: 4,034 digital images : JPEG ; 10.3 GB .
System of Arrangement: The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
Conditions on Use: Any commercial use of the records require to obtain a written consent from the owner of original materials, and may require the payment of a license fee for such use.
Copyright Holder: Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century. Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs--History. Labor Zionism--Europe--Periodicals. Communism and Zionism--Europe--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania.
Geographic Name: Lithuania--Ethnic relations--20th century. Vilnius (Lithuania)--Ethnic relations. Kaunas (Lithuania) Panevėžys (Lithuania) Lithuania
Personal Name: Grinboim, Binyamin, 1907-1972--Correspondence. ʻAmit, Yaʻaḳov, 1933---Correspondence.
Corporate Name: World Hashomer Hatzair Ḳibuts ha-artsi ha-shomer ha-tsaʻir (Israel)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Yad Yaari, Israel, Record Group 4-2. The reproduction was completed as a joint project with Yad Vashem. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Hashomer Hatzair Archives, Yad Yaari, Israel, via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 2014.

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