This project was carried out with the support of the Board of Directors of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Project Team
Project Director: Fruma Mohrer
Project Historian: Marek Web
Project Archivist: Rivka Schiller
Web Developer: William DeVries, Data Based Media, Inc.
Design: Miranda Levy
Additional Graphic Design: Alix Brandwein
Additional Web Content Development and Project Management: Roberta Newman
Project Coordinator: Ettie Goldwasser
Special Thanks to:
Executive Director: Jonathan Brent
Director of Development: Suzanne Leon
Chief Financial Officer: Robert Wagman
Director of Library and Archives: Lyudmila Sholokhova
Senior Photo & Film Archivist: Krysia Fisher
Digital Photography & Scanning:
Ardon Bar Hama; Jesse Aaron Cohen; Peter Goldberg; Gruss Lipper Digital Lab, Center for Jewish History; Karl Rudisill, Duggal Visual Solutions; Eve Gecker; Ettie Goldwasser; Jennifer Waxman; Krysia Fisher
Translators:
Shmuel Klein (Hebrew), Vital Zajka (Russian), Aurora Zinder (Russian), Harriet Wolf (German), Goldie Knobel (Yiddish), Roberta Newman (Yiddish), Rivka Schiller (Yiddish), Marek Web (Polish)
Finding Aids (Electronic Format, Encoding, Migration) & Cataloging:
Lauren Bradley, Elissa Bemporad, Shayna Goodman, Rachel Harrison, Shmuel Klein, Chava Lapin, Faige Lederman, Laura Leone, Rachel C. Miller, Renee Miller, Roberta Newman, Dianne Ritchey Oummia, Jennifer Palmisano, Stanislav Pejsa, Sarah Ponichtera, Rivka Schiller, Yakov Sklar, Jennifer Waxman, Vital Zajka
Yiddish Finding Aids:
Shaindel Fogelman
Audio and Music Selections:
Lorin Sklamberg, Matt Temkin, Chana Mlotek, z'l
Essay -- Polish Jewry: A Chronology
Written by Marek Web. Edited and designed by Ettie Goldwasser, Krysia Fisher and Alix Brandwein.
YIVO Library Staff
Lyudmila Sholokhova, Aviva Astrinsky, Yeshaya Metal, Oleg Vinogradov, Faige Lederman, Tatiana Popova
YIVO Archives Staff & Consultants
Marek Web, Ettie Goldwasser, Rivka Schiller, Shaindel Fogelman, Gunnar Berg, Krysia Fisher, Leo Greenbaum, Chana Mlotek, Shmuel Klein, Lorin Sklamberg, Matt Temkin
IT & Software Support:
Louis Pinzon, Steven Moise, Camelia Anghel, Jason Carlin, Chris Prom and the ARCHON team at the University of Illinois
Additional thanks to:
Staff of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Staff of the Center for Jewish History, Carl Rheins, Herbert Lazarus, Stephanie Steiker, Bob Sink, Andrea Buchner, the late Antonio Megino
IMAGE CREDITS & OTHER PERMISSIONS
Thanks to the following for granting permission to post images, documents, and other materials on this web site:
FORWARD ASSOCIATION, for images published in the newspaper Forward, and photos by Alter Kacyzne and Menachem Kipnis
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE for AJDC documents and photos
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE for AJC documents
THE ARTHUR SZYK SOCIETY for artwork by Arthur Szyk
REBECCA PATT COHEN for documents written by Jacob Pat
MR. AND MRS. EDWARD ARTHUR SHURE, artist's grandson, for artwork by Josef Foshko
BARBARA J. BULOFF for artwork by Leib Kadison
ELLEN FREY AND DR. SIMON SPIVACK for recordings made by Ruth Rubin