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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

Grzymalów. Picture postcard view of the synagogue.

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Inowlodz , July 27, 1904. A group of people, posing together under a tree in the woods.

Jaroslaw, 1931. View of a TOZ summer camp.

Jaroslaw, after 1915. Tombstones in the Jewish cemetery, of two Jewish soldiers who fell while serving in the German army during World War I.

Jaroszowka (a district of Bialystok), 1930s. In the doctor's office, at a consulation center for infant health, run by the Bialystok TOZ .

Jaroszowka, 1930's. "Rest Cure." Children lying on cots outdoors, at a summer camp run by the Bialystok TOZ-OZE.

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Jaroszowka, 1930's. Two women pose in a pharmacy.

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Jaroszowka, 1930s. A dentist, shown treating a patient at a dental clinic.

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Jaroszowka, 1930s. A doctor examines a boy with a stethoscope.

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Jaroszowka, 1930s. Portrait of youngsters at a meal outdoors, at a summer camp run by the Bialystok TOZ-OZE.

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Kalisz, 1920s-30s. Tauba Siemiatycka, a student at the Warsaw University, poses on a couch.

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Kalisz, 1932. An old man with a lulav and etrog, and a woman with a basket, on Sukkot.

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Kamionka Strumilowa, 1920s-1930s. Boys studying in a kheyder.

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Kamionka Strumilowa, 1930s. The melamed presides over a class in a kheyder.

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Karczew, 1935. People walk along a quiet residential street, lined with wooden homes.

Karwia, 1928. Men, including I. J. Singer, play chess, while a crowd looks on, at the Kultur-Lige Summer Colony.

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Kazimierz Dolny, 1920s-30s. Young men and women from Warszawa on an outing, pose in bathing suits.

Kazimierz Dolny, 1925. Customers look over shoes, at an outdoor shoe stall in the marketplace.

Kazimierz Dolny, 1927. Hershele the water-carrier, walks from the well with two full buckets of water.

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Kazimierz Dolny, 1936. Members of Tsukunft pose, wearing bathing suits, in a lake at their summer camp.

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Kazimierz Dolny, July 1936. Members of the Tsukunft summer camp, pose out in the woods.

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Kazmierz Dolny, 1930s. Horse-drawn wagons, in the market place.

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Klimontow, 1920s-1930s. Children and adults line the balcony, and the path to the synagogue.

Kolbuszowa, 1929. A group of young women, standing together on a wooden porch, and laughing.

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Kolbuszowa, 1929. Three women, standing together on a wooden porch.

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Kolomyja, 1920s. Members of the Herzlia youth organization.

Kolomyja, 1932. Jewish curtain makers and piece workers (khalupnikes), posing at their machines, with examples of their lace-curtain work.

Korelicze, ca. 1921. A house reconstructed, with the aid of funds from the AJDC.

Kosow, 1909.Yitschok and Yente Ribok, and their daughter and son.

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Kraków, 1920. Portrait of three children of the Stern family.

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Krakow, 1932. A child of the Rebbe, on a walk on Lag Be-Omer.

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Krakow, 1938. Portrait of Maryna Jakobiak, with her husband on their wedding day.

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Krakow. Portrait of I. Krieg, a soldier in the Polish army, and his bride, on their wedding day.

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Krzemieniec, 1928. A man at a desk, in the library of the Histadrut Hatsiyonit (the Zionist Organization).

Krzemieniec, ca. 1912. Zusman Kisselhof, on the S. An-Sky Ethnographic Expedition, making sound recordings of Jewish folklore.

Kunow, 1920s-1930s. Khaskele, a tailor, poses at a sewing machine in his home.

Lachwa, 1937. Wedding portrait, in front of a wooden house. A non-Jewish couple, flanked by their wedding party, with a Jewish fiddler, and other musicians.

Lask, ca. 1939. A street scene: a Jewish man in traditional dress, and a young girl on the sidewalk, outside a barber shop.

Leczyca, 1890. Men in costume for a Purim shpil. Among them is Jacob Lassman, who later emigrated to the USA.

Lida, 1910. Rabbi Shlomo Polachek, the Illui (prodigy) of Meitshet, the head of the Lida Yeshiva, with teachers and students of the 3rd class.

Lodz, 1890s. Studio portrait of four generations of a family, posing with a framed portrait of a man on a bicycle.

Lodz, 1902. Striking weavers, pose for a group portrait, in front of the Wislicki factory.

Lodz, 1909. Yiddish writer Mendele Moykher Sforim, with Jacob Dinesohn, Dovid Frischmann, and the teachers of the Jaroczinski Trade School.

Lodz, 1912. Crowds fill the streets, at the funeral procession of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel (1821-1912), the rabbi of Lodz.

Lodz, 1914-15. Emblems of various relief organizations, active during World War I.

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Lodz, 1924.The founders and current board of directors, of the Linat Ha-Tsedek emergency medical service.

Lodz, 1928. Young men, pose near seamless sock-making machines, in an ORT vocational class.

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Lodz, 1928. Young women, at work in an ORT embroidery class, where they learned to make linen undergarments and shirts.

Lodz, 1930s. A street scene, in the Baluty neighborhood.

Lodz, 1933. In the Baluty neighborhood marketplace, a street merchant, with geese for sale, hung around his neck.

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Lodz, 1939. Scenes from a TOZ summer camp.

Lodz, August 1928. Students and faculty, pose in a classroom, on the day of the final examination.

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Lodz, ca. 1920s. Portrait of the faculty and students of the first graduating class of the school for tinsmiths, run by the trade union.

Lodz, ca. 1920s. Yiddish Writers: Broderson, Markish, and Kacyzne.

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Lodz, ca. 1930s. Factories and smokestacks.

Lodz, January 20, 1926. Boys pose in the snow, with adults outside their kheyder, the traditional elementary school.

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Lodz, WWI. Outside J. Koprovsky's pharmacy, dish washers kasher (ritually cleanse) dishes, for Passover use.

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Lodz. A picture postcard, of the the Great German Synagogue.

Lomza, 1927. An old Jewish carpenter, works a piece of wood with his hand tools.

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Lomza, WWI, ca. 1915. On the pavement near a shop, Jewish boys shine the shoes of German officers.

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Lowicz, 1910s. Six men, pose around a table with newspapers and cigarettes.

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Lowicz, 1917. Portrait of members of the local Poalei Zion.

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Lowicz, 1919. Two children, an uncle and his nephew, play chess outdoors.

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Lowicz, Oct. 10, 1925. Portrait of members of a "lecture circle," posing in front of a portrait of I. L. Peretz.

Lowicz. Members of the Jewish Kehillah at a celebration.

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Lubcza, 1920s. Ruveyn Kivelewicz's home, under reconstruction, with the help of a loan from the AJDC.

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Lubcza, after WWI. Children with a horse-drawn sleigh, outside Borukh Mordkhe Jankelewicz's house, under reconstruction, with the aid of a loan from the AJDC

Lubcza, after WWI. Tuvye Szimszelewicz's house, under reconstruction, with the aid of a loan from the AJDC.

Lubcza, ca. 1920s. View of Palace Street, in the winter.

Lublin, 1919. A group of men, all born in 1898, pose with a framed portrait of Ber Borochov, before going into the Polish army at the age of 21.

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Lublin, 1919. In an office of the AJDC, a committee meeting of women who will be in charge of a children's summer camp.

Lublin, 1925. A view of the amud (lectern) in the Maharam synagogue.

Lublin, 1930. At the Consultation Center for Infants, a baby is weighed on a scale.

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Lublin, 1937. The local water carrier.

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Luck, 1930s. Students and a staff member, looking at books in a children's library.

Lukow, 1926. Lukow's widest and busiest street; almost all its inhabitants were Jews.

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Lukow, 1926. The town marketplace.

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Lukow, ca. 1920s. A Jewish soldier in the Polish army, poses with family members.

Lwów, 1918. After the pogrom, children who have received food from a soup kitchen, pose on a sidewalk, with pitchers and soup pails.

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Lwów, 1918. After the pogrom: victims in a field and along a road, carrying bundles, and driving horse-drawn wagons laden with belongings.

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Lwów, 1918. Taking refuge in a cellar: these four children whose parents were murdered in the pogrom in Lwów, were taken in by refugees.

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Lwów, 1918. Two months after the pogrom: the damaged gate of a ladies' and children's clothing store.

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Lwów, 1923. Students at work in a sewing class, at the Jewish Trade School for Girls, at No. 9 Piekarska Street.

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Lwów, 1924. Jozef Wittlin, a well-known Polish writer, and his wife Halina, pose on a balcony during their honeymoon.

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Lwów, 1930s. A view of the city, from a tall building.

Lwów, 1930s. Sharly (Lotte) Wilder, a teacher, with her students in costume, posing outdoors.

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Lwów, 1930s. Two beggars, at the cemetery wall.

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Lwów, 1937. A man in silhouette, standing in front of a tombstone.

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Lwów, ca. 1900. Photomontage of students in uniform.

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Lwów, June 9-10, 1905. Portrait of delegates, to the 1st convention of the Jewish Social Democratic Party.

Marienbad, 1924. The Belzer Rebbe, out for a walk with his Hasidim, at a health resort .

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Miedzeszyn, 1938-39. Refugee children from Germany, at the Medem Sanatorium, posing with their two counselors.

Miedzeszyn, the 1930s. The Medem Sanatorium.

Miedzeszyn,1938-39. Refugee children from Germany, sitting at desks during a Yiddish lesson, in a classroom at the Medem Sanatorium.

Miedzyrzec, 1924. A peddler, posing with her wares.

Miedzyrzec, 1930s. Portrait of a student, at study in the yeshivah.

Miedzyrzec, ca. 1930s. Portrait of young Tsukunft activists.

Mielec, October 1930. Members of the Eisig family, sitting in front of a monument.

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Mir, 1925. Portrait of a group of Mirrer Yeshivah students.

Mir, 1926. Montage of photographs of the faculty and students of the Mirrer Yeshivah.

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