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Helga Rome's Passport, World War II photo

"After Kristallnacht, my grandmother went to Brazil and then we sponsored her to come here. It was difficult at the beginning for me. School was difficult, language was hard. But we graduated at 16. My father h... More

Central Yiddish School Organization_Central Secretary Vilna

In 1921 the Central Yiddish School Organization (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye – often known by the acronym TSYSHO) was founded in Warsaw to advance and administrate a network of secular Yiddish schools. ... More

People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR

On June 20th, 1934, the older People’s Commissariat of Military and Marine Affairs became the People’s Commissariat of Defense of the U.S.S.R. In December 1937, naval affairs were handed over to the new People’... More

Uman Public Library - Public domain geographic map

The city of Uman remains an important location for Jews due largely to its connection to the famed Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav who lived in Uman in the months previous to his death. The Jewish population of Uman w... More

Uman Public Library - A stamp with the name of a city on it

The city of Uman remains an important location for Jews due largely to its connection to the famed Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav who lived in Uman in the months previous to his death. The Jewish population of Uman w... More

Latvian SSR Yiddish Theater, Israel

After the Soviet Army occupied the Republic of Latvia it renamed the territory the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR) – it was a region that saw heavy fighting throughout the Second World War as co... More

Baltinava Jewish Culture Society - Public domain map

Though the village of Baltinava’s Jewish community never numbered higher than a few hundred the village was still home to Jewish mutual aid and cultural societies – as this book stamp demonstrates. In the years... More

Library of the Kovno Kollel - Public domain map

Library of the Kovno Kollel...In 1877, Rabbi Yisroel ben Ze’ev Wolf Lipkin – also known as Yisroel Salanter – founded a Kolel (a yeshiva for young, but married, men) in the city of Kaunes (Kovno), Lithuania. T... More

Kolel Kaunas Consolidated with Kolel House of Israel

Kolel Kaunas (Kovno) consolidated with Kolel House of Israel. Talmudical Academy Kolel of Kaunas and Kolel Beis Israel Kaunes, Lithuania. Kaunas, Lithuania...Library of the Kovno Kollel...In 1877, Rabbi Yisroel... More

Rabbinical School Vauquelire Street Paris

Rabbinical School, Vauquelire Street – Paris. .The Séminaire Israélite de France (also referred to as the École Rabbinique) has been training rabbis since 1829. Though founded in Metz, the school was transferre... More

Rabbinical School Vacquelire Street Paris

Rabbinical School, Vauquelire Street – Paris. .The Séminaire Israélite de France (also referred to as the École Rabbinique) has been training rabbis since 1829. Though founded in Metz, the school was transferre... More

Captain Joseph H. Freedman Hq, USAFIME, is shown blowing the Shofar

Description: Text on back of photograph: Chaplain Joseph H. Freedman Hq, USAFIME, is shown blowing the "Shofar" during the annual religious service in observance of Rosh-Hashana. Photo by Sgt. E.M. Henderson, ... More

This V-J party united patients and J.W.B. hostesses in joy at victory

Description: This V-J party united patients and J.W.B. hostesses in joy at victory, 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unkown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1945..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210092... More

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", ci...

Description: Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Note: Text on back of photograph: Standing in the middle of the Dragons' Teeth," World... More

Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945

Description: Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Photography Negative. .Date: ca. 1945..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-ful... More

Chaplain Manuel M. Poliakoff had three unexpected guests..., March 9, ...

Description: Text on back of photograph: Jewish Chaplain Manuel M. Poliakoff had three unexpected guests at his service when the boy and girl dropped in with their father and asked if they might attend the "Ser... More

Molly Picon performing during a U.S.O. tour of camps in the United Sta...

Description: Molly Picon performing during a U.S.O. tour of camps in the United States during World War II, March 21, 1945...Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: March 21, 1945..: digital.cjh.or... More

Asia Raya, 23 July 1942

Front page of Asia Raya, 23 July 1942

Auto met gasgenerator - Fotodienst der NSB - NIOD - 210950

Nederlands: Auto met gasgenerator. Deze foto is afkomstig uit het archief van de Fotodienst der NSB.

BATTLENETHERLANDS2 - A group of men standing on top of a train

Dutch mobile anti-aircraft gun. This AA unit was actually a German AA truck which the Dutch bought from the Allies who captured it in late 1918 from the defeated German army.