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Gordonia-Maccabi-Hatzair Displaced Persons Camp in Vienna, Austria. Watercolor poster for a Chanukah party, December 3 (c. 1950), with program of entertainment.

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2021-12-07

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Photo: From an album from the TOZ sports group, girls doing ballet pose along a wall. Warsaw, 1921-22.

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2021-06-18

A Matzah baker loads dough into an oven. Lida, March 14, 1926. Photo by Alter Kacyzne.

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2020-04-14

Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) Passover seder for refugees, Shanghai, China, ca. 1945-46.

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2020-04-13

Portrait study at work on a sacred text, a 'soyfer' and 'bal-magie' examining a Torah scroll. Matseyevo, published in the Forward on March 27, 1927. Photo by Alter Kacyzne.

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2020-03-28

A group of people studying in the library in a Displaced Persons (DP) Camp in Germany, ca. 1945-1948.

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2020-03-18

"The old shames." Friday evening before the sabbath in the Saul Wahl synagogue. Lublin, pub March 13, 1927 in the Forward. Photo by Alter Kacyzne.

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2020-03-13

'Eydl Karbman at ther modest Sabbath table.' Four candlesticks sit on the table ready for candle-lighting. Gora Kalwaria. March 4, 1928

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2020-03-07

While instructor sits at a desk in the rear, students work with instruments at drafting tables; diagrams are seen on the blackboard in the rear. Cologne, Germany, late 1930s.

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2020-02-29

The cook serving the evening meal to the students at the ORT Technical Engineering School. Leeds, England, 1939.

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2020-02-25

Student studying in their shared bedroom at the ORT Technical Engineering School Hostel. Leeds, England, 1939.

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2020-02-18

Boys on the street holding flags used in the Simkhes Toyre Holiday. Warsaw, 1930s.

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2019-10-23

Blowing the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur. Germany, ca 1945-1948.

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2019-10-10

Prayers at the Warshaver Synagogue in New York City's Lower East Side, D-Day, June 6, 1944. Photo by Larry Gordon.

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2019-06-06

US Army Passover Service in a field during WWII. Location unknown.

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2019-04-28

Men making matzohs for Passover in Mariendorf DP Camp in Berlin, Germany in 1946.

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2019-04-26

Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) Passover seder for refugees, Shanghai, China, ca. 1945-46.

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2019-04-26

Happy Passover!
PHOTO: A matzah baker loads dough into an oven. Photo by Alter Kacyzne. Lida, March 14, 1926.

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2019-04-23

We wish and your family a zisn un a koshern peysekh! Happy Passover!

Family having a Passover seder in Hallein DP Camp. Austria, ca. 1945-1951.

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2019-04-20

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.”
Photo: Burning synagogue on Kristallnacht. Hildesheim, Germany. November 9, 1938.

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2018-11-10