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RG 25: Vaad Hayeshivot, Vilna (Vilna). Records.

Records of an organization that provided financial and spiritual assistance to a network of 70 yeshivot in the five Eastern provinces of Poland

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COLLECTION Vaad Hayeshivot (025)

RG 29: Vilna. Collection.

Records of Jewish organizations and institutions; official government, municipal, and legal documents; memoirs of the German occupation, and other documents chronicling the life of the Jewish community in Vilna

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Appeal to Jews in Vilna to boycott German goods (RG 29.16.2)
Report on the reconstruction work of YEKOPO, Vilna (1919-1924) (RG 29.72.2)

RG 53: OSE-TOZ. Records.

Records of an organization dedicated to providing health care and health education to Jews in Poland

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COLLECTION Records of the OSE-TOZ (Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniia Evreev/ Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews), RG 53 (RG 53)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Brody, 1881. Portrait of The Committee in Charge of Relief and Migration Activities. (yarg120po300d001)
Lodz, 1914-15. Emblems of various relief organizations, active during World War I. (yarg120po1753.07)
Lwów, 1918. After the pogrom: victims in a field and along a road, carrying bundles, and driving horse-drawn wagons laden with belongings. (yarg120po2169.04)
Lwów, 1918. Taking refuge in a cellar: these four children whose parents were murdered in the pogrom in Lwów, were taken in by refugees. (yarg120po2169.08)
Miedzeszyn, 1938-39. Refugee children from Germany, at the Medem Sanatorium, posing with their two counselors. (yarg120po2442)
Miedzeszyn,1938-39. Refugee children from Germany, sitting at desks during a Yiddish lesson, in a classroom at the Medem Sanatorium. (yarg120po2439)
Unknown location. Ca. WWI. Men and women, carting food to town. (yarg120po6652)
Vilna, 1915. Picture postcard of a 100-year-old Jewish man, exiled from the Suwalki district by the Russian authorities, lying on a cot, surrounded by onlookers. (yarg120po5148)
Vilna, 1939. Historian Simon Dubnow, posing with a group of Jewish refugee writers, during his visit to the refugee shelter. (yarg120po6036.01)
Vilna, 1939. Men giving their shoes in for repair. (yarg120po7136)
Vilna, 1939. Refugee boys, studying Talmud at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva. (yarg120po5429.08)
Vilna, 1939. Two boys conversing at their study benches, at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva. (yarg120po5429.07)
Wolomin, 1921-22. Removing freshly baked loaves of bread from an oven, at the bakery of the Central Relief Committee for Jewish Refugees from the Ukraine and Russia. (yarg120po6123)
Zbaszyn, 1938-1939. Noah Nachbush, entertaining refugee children. (RG 120 PO 6304)
Zyrardow, ca. 1915. Photomontage of portraits of Jewish men from the Radom and Kielce areas. (yarg120po6656)

RG 335.2: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Subgroup: American Joint Reconstruction Foundation. Records.

Records of American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, which helped rebuild the economy in Eastern Europe after WWI through the establishment of cooperative credit institutions and savings banks.

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COLLECTION Records of American Joint Reconstruction Foundation (335.2)

RG 335.7: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Subgroup: JDC Landsmanshaftn Department. Records.

Records of the Landsmanshaftn Department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to enlist the cooperation of landsmanshaftn in the AJDC's reconstruction program in Eastern Europe

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Letter from The Committee to Aid Jewish Refugees from Germany in Korczyn. (RG 335.7.0184.001)

RG 347.1.29: American Jewish Committee. Subgroup: Executive Offices. Morris Waldman Files. Records.

Documents of an official of the AJC, including correspondence, reports, studies, statements, minutes of meetings, memoranda, speeches, and other papers related to Jewish affairs in Poland.

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Letter from Cordell Hull, Department of State, to Cyrus Adler, American Jewish Committee (yarg347.1.29f006d004)

RG 1270: Kacyzne, Alter (1885-1941). Papers.

Photographs of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s-1930s

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Warsaw. A boy and a man sit among bundles, waiting to leave for the port in the Free City of Gdansk. (RG 1270_264)