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Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

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Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

Vilna, 1936-37. Girls from the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, posing together.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Girls ironing in the pressing room, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Seamstress Class 1A, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Student seamstresses fitting a dress on a woman, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-37. Students of the undergarment sewing division, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936-37. The Madame Annétte corset shop, which employed alumnae of the Trade School of the Jewish Womens Union in Vilna.

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Vilna, 1936. Boys washing up, at the city Talmud Torah.

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Vilna, 1936. Children's health clinic.

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Vilna, 1936. Lord Marley taking notes, during a visit to YIVO.

Vilna, 1936. The Maccabi Sports Club soccer team, posing on the playing field.

Vilna, 1936. The Maccabi Sports Club soccer team.

Vilna, 1937. Portrait of Dr. Jacob Wygodski (seated, center), and other members of the Kehillah.

Vilna, 1938. Students and teachers in a kitchen, during a housekeeping class, sponsored by the Women's Aid Organization.

Vilna, 1938. Women searching for missing husbands, children, and other relatives, at the office of the Women's Aid Organization.

Vilna, 1939. An aspirant at work, in the ethnography section of the YIVO Aspirantur.

Vilna, 1939. Historian Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz from New York, posing with Riva Kalmanovitch.

Vilna, 1939. Historian Simon Dubnow, posing with a group of Jewish refugee writers, during his visit to the refugee shelter.

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Vilna, 1939. Men giving their shoes in for repair.

Vilna, 1939. Refugee boys, studying Talmud at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva.

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Vilna, 1939. Two boys conversing at their study benches, at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva.

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Vilna, Aug 14-19, 1935. Historians at the YIVO Conference.

Vilna, Aug 14-19,1935. Portrait of historians who attended the YIVO conference.

Vilna, before 1907. Portrait of Dvora Esther Gelfer (1817-1907), philanthropist, and founder of a gemilat chesed.

Vilna, ca. 1900. Photomontage of portraits of prominent members of Hovevei Zion.

Vilna, ca. 1900. Portrait of Dvoyre Romm, a member of the well-known family of printers and publishers.

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Vilna, ca. 1900. Portrait of Shevel Kinkulkin, the last Jewish bookseller of non-Jewish books, on the streets of Vilna.

Vilna, ca. 1910. Looking down Georgy Prospekt Street, at the Cathedral Church and Tower.

Vilna, ca. 1918. A portrait of a gymnastics class, at the Orphanage at 39 Ostrabrama Street.

Vilna, ca. 1930s. Peddlers with produce, in the durkhhoyf (through-yard), located between Jatkowa and Zydowska Streets.

Vilna, ca. 1930s. Pedestrians on Wielka Street. On the left, a store belonging to R. Bersztel.

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Vilna, ca. 1930s. Three men at work, in the YIVO Archives.

Vilna, ca. 1930s. Zelig Kalmanovitch (right), and F. Halpern, in conversation over a book at YIVO.

Vilna, ca. 1939. Poet A. Sutzkever and actor Noach Nachbush, walking down the street.

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Vilna, Jan. 23, 1933. Students of the Real-Gymnasium, posing at a YIVO exhibition on Jewish social movements.

Vilna, June 29 1933. Newsmen from the Jewish press, being welcomed by the TOZ staff and children, at the summer camp.

Vilna, May, 1922. The 2nd graduating class of the Mefitse Haskalah Boys' School (the I. L. Peretz class), and the staff.

Vilna, May, 1937. Adults, including Dr. Jabwabnik, pose with children, during a visit to the TOZ summer camp.

Vilna, Nov 16, 1935. Elye Tejtelbaum, directing a performance by the Maccabi Sports Club Brass Band.

Vilna, Spring 1939. A group of YIVO aspirantn, and instructors.

Vilna. Boys pose shirtless, in a gymnastic formation.

Vilna. Khaykl Lunski, the librarian of the Strashun Library.

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Vilna. An arch across the cobblestone street, along Jatkowa Street, in the Jewish Quarter.

Vilna. Schoolboys doing acrobatics with their instructor.

Warszawa, 1880-1890. Portrait of Nahum Sokolow, an early Zionist, senior editor and co-owner of Hatzefira, with his wife and child.

Warszawa, 1903. David Herman, director and actor, stands next to a carriage, with his troupe's actresses.

Warszawa, 1905. The cantors, and choir, of the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue, on Swietojerska Street 21, including Menachem Kipnis.

Warszawa, 1907. Portrait of Lejba Hirszowicz, his son Jozef, and grandson Ernest; three generations.

Warszawa, 1918. Visiting writer Jacob Dinesohn, with a teacher and students, in a classroom at the Folkshul at 29 Krochmalna St.

Warszawa, 1919. Group portrait of 8 of the 13 Jewish representatives, in the first Polish Parliament.

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Warszawa, 1920. People receiving packages, at the remittance office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Warszawa, 1920s-1930s. On the eve of Sukkot, Jewish boys on a cobblestone street, are carrying the etrog and lulav.

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Warszawa, 1920s. A povery-stricken widow in bed, ill with tuberculosis, with two of her four children.

Warszawa, 1920s. At a folkshul, children dress in costume, for a play directed by Zofia Rotblat.

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Warszawa, 1920s. At a folkshul, children are in costume, for a play directed by Zofia Rotblat.

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Warszawa, 1920s. At a folkshul, two children are in costume, one with a mandolin, for a play directed by Zofia Rotblat.

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Warszawa, 1920s. The children and staff of the orphanage at 21 Elektoralna Street, pose at mealtime.

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Warszawa, 1920s. The children and staff of the orphanage at 21 Elektoralna Street, pose with mugs in a classroom.

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Warszawa, 1921-22. Portrait of four writers: Uri Zvi Greenberg, Markish, Elkin, and Leybl.

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Warszawa, 1922. A group of school girls, from the class of Rivka Gordon (Tolpin), at the Borochow School.

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Warszawa, 1922. Members of the young Yiddish literary crowd: Esther Shumiatcher, Khane Kacyzne, Peretz Hirschbein, Mendl Elkin, Esther Elkin, Alter Kacyzne, and Uri Zvi Greenberg.

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Warszawa, 1922. The Khalyastre (Gang): Mendl Elkin, Peretz Hirschbein, Uri Zvi Greenburg, Peretz Markish, Melech Ravitch, and Israel Joshua Singer.

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Warszawa, 1923. Drinking tea, under framed portraits of Karl Marx and Ber Borochov, at the Poalei Zion Workers' Home.

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Warszawa, 1923. View through a courtyard during business hours, near Nalewki Street.

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Warszawa, 1925. A shtot-meshugener, who spends his time at the railroad station. Also, an elderly Jew.

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Warszawa, 1926. Four young Hasidim, taken along by their fathers to see the Gerer Rebbe.

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Warszawa, 1927. Hasidic Jews have a discussion together, on their way home from the synagogue on Shabbos.

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Warszawa, 1927. Poale Zion members and workers, march in a May Day parade with Yiddish signs.

Warszawa, 1928 The rebbe, with his son and shames, walks to Shabbos services.

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Warszawa, 1928. Janina and Hanna Mortkowicz, stand on a balcony.

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Warszawa, 1928. Three shoemakers, in the open-air marketplace.

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Warszawa, 1929. Pola Goldstein-Jackubowicz, right, the aunt of Lucjan Borowik, son-in-law of industrialist Abraham Gepner, posing in an open window.

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Warszawa, 1929. Zofja Oldak, winner of the Nasz Przeglad Miss Judea Beauty Contest.

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Warszawa, 1930. Five art students, pose with their paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which are on exhibit.

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Warszawa, 1930. Protest against British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine.

Warszawa, 1930s. Malke Hamerow poses for a portrait with Chaim Sznejer, a member of the Vilna Troupe, and others.

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Warszawa, 1930s. A sukkah is set up in a courtyard for Sukkot.

Warszawa, 1930s. A business courtyard on Nalewki Street, with the stores of T. Appel, Szpiro, and others.

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Warszawa, 1930s. Boys on the street, holding flags used in the Simchat Torah processions, with the Torah scrolls.

Warszawa, 1930s. On the eve of Sukkot, a women carries a bundle of hosha'anot and a covered basket, along a commercial street.

Warszawa, 1930s. Selling flags for Simhat Torah.

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Warszawa, 1930s. The staff of Der Moment.

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Warszawa, 1936. Professors Mojzesz Schorr (on the left), and Majer Balaban, walk down the street together.

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Warszawa, 1937. Sculptor Nathan Rapaport, posing in his studio with his wife, Sima.

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Warszawa, 1938. At the School of Nursing at the Jewish Hospital, two boys are examined.

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Warszawa, 1938. In the demonstration room, set up as a ward, in the School of Nursing.

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Warszawa, 1938. In the nursery, two students prepare to apply hypodermic needles to children, in the School of Nursing.

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Warszawa, 1938. Mothers sit with their babies, at a babies' health station in the School of Nursing.

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Warszawa, 1938. Students at the School of Nursing, prepare for an operation.

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Warszawa, 1938. Students of the School of Nursing at the Jewish Hospital, conduct an examination.

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Warszawa, 1939. Nursing students preparing food, at the School of Nursing, at the Jewish Hospital.

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Warszawa, 1939. Students in the Science Laboratory of the School of Nursing.

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Warszawa, 1939. The main hall of the student residence of the School of Nursing, at the Jewish Hospital.

Warszawa, ca. 1910s-1920s. Young people climb a fence, to get into the Yiddish Muranow Theater for free.

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Warszawa, ca. 1917. A melamed in a kheyder, reads to his pupils.

Warszawa, ca. 1919. Children from the I. L. Peretz Orphanage, pose with a framed portrait of Peretz.

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Warszawa, ca. 1919. Jacob Dinesohn, the writer, visits with the children and staff of the I. L. Peretz Orphanage and Elementary School.

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Warszawa, early 1900s. The horse-drawn wagon of the Kompanyeyts Troupe, covered with theater posters.

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Warszawa, July, 1923. Shabad and Lewin, at the first TOZ reorganization conference.

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Warszawa, late 1920s. A busy street scene on Muranow Street, in the heart of the Jewish Quarter.

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Warszawa, late 1930s. Strollers at the corner of Ujazdowskie Avenue and Matejki Street.

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