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Autobiographies submitted to YIVO in Vilna as entries to three contests (1932, 1934, 1939) sponsored by the institute's Youth Research Division (Yugntforshung)

Records of the administration of the Jewish community in Vilna from 1800 to 1940

Synagogue seat contracts, brit (circumcision) and marriage registers, school and vocational apprenticeship records, and other documents

Papers of an early and  prominent Zionist leader in Vilna, including reports and correspondence from 1901-1919 related to both local and international Zionist organizations

Records of a seminary that trained teachers for the Hebrew elementary school system in Poland

Leaflets, posters, and other documents related to political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities

Posters advertising political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities

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

Fragmentary records of the office of the Vilna Chief of Police, including dossiers on people suspected of revolutionary activities

Original art works, reproductions, and historical artifacts, including costume and stage designs; political cartoons; and Jewish ceremonial art

Printed materials, posters, correspondence, and fragmentary personal papers and records of institutions related to Polish Jewish life before WWII

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

Historical and literary manuscripts belonging to YIVO that were rescued and hidden from the Nazis, including manuscripts by S. An-Ski, Theodor Herzl, Mendele Moykher Sforim, and Sholem Aleichem

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.

Papers of an Anglo-Jewish diplomat who was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and who was involved in the drafting of the minorities treaties

Papers of the historian, writer, lecturer, lexicographer, bibliographer, and editor, including correspondence, materials and notes for articles, and bibliographies

Papers of the Jewish writer and journalist, including reports on the pogroms of 1918-1919 in Ukraine

Correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials related to scholarly work on the history of Poland in the pre-WWII period and the history of the Jews in Poland in the 1930s

Archives of the Bund (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland - The General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland and Russia), including materials on the history of the Bund, Jewish and general socialist groups, and other political movements

Records of the Bund Foreign Committee in Geneva including letters and other documents related to Bund support groups in the Russian Empire and worldwide.