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RG 10: Vilna Jewish Community Council. Records.

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

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Postcard from Khaykel Lunski and his father to a brother/son in the tsarist army (RG 10.82.1)

RG 12: Minsk Jewish Community Council. Records.

Registers of births, marriages and deaths, tax rolls, correspondence regarding Jewish military service in Minsk, and other documents

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COLLECTION Minsk Jewish Community Council (012)
Governor's order about hiding fugitives from conscription (RG 12.5.1)

RG 14: Krotoszyn Jewish Community Council. Records.

Records on taxation and communal administration, birth and marriage records, materials about the community's religious school, and other documents

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COLLECTION Krotoszyn Jewish Community Council (014)

RG 24: Rabbinical School and Teachers' Seminary, Vilna. Records.

Records of the Rabbinical School and Teachers' Institute, one of several Jewish state schools established in the Russian Empire in 1847 in order to undermine and replace the traditional heder system of education

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COLLECTION Rabbinical School and Teachers' Seminary (024)

RG 27: Guttmacher, Eliyahu (1796-1874). Papers.

Several thousand 19th-century kvitlekh (written requests to a rabbi asking for a blessing or advice) sent to Rabbi Eliayahu Guttmacher, known as the Tsadik of Graetz

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Note to a rabbi from parents of a son serving in the tsarist army (RG 27 746.1)

RG 28P: Poland (Vilna Archives) Collection. Posters.

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

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Krakow. Appeal to the Jewish population to take up arms or otherwise serve in the defense of Poland against Soviet attack, 6/1920. (RG 28/P/791)
Plock. Come to the defense of the Polish Republic by taking up arms, auxiliary duty, and financial contributions. (RG 28/P/806)
Radom. A service in the Great Synagogue related to the ninth convention of legionaires. (RG 28/P/1319)
Vilna. Announcement of the "Day of the Wounded and Sick Red Army Soldiers," [1919]. (RG 28/P/726)

RG 56: Vilna Chief of Police. Records.

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

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Document about fine for avoiding military service (RG 56.49)
Letter of honorable discharge from army service for a military doctor (RG 56.12)
Minutes of meeting of the Grodno Province Military Conscription Council (RG 56.36.1)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Bialystok, April 16, 1919. A man poses in uniform with his bicycle, in front of a painted backdrop. (yarg120bialystokboxd005)
Czestochowa, 1920s-1930s. Festive gathering of Jewish soldiers in the Polish army, and Jewish community leaders. (yarg120po605)
Inowlodz , July 27, 1904. A group of people, posing together under a tree in the woods. (yarg120po6481)
Jaroslaw, after 1915. Tombstones in the Jewish cemetery, of two Jewish soldiers who fell while serving in the German army during World War I. (yarg120po1298)
Krakow. Portrait of I. Krieg, a soldier in the Polish army, and his bride, on their wedding day. (yarg120po563.28)
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. (yarg120po2041.01)
Lukow, ca. 1920s. A Jewish soldier in the Polish army, poses with family members. (yarg120po2091)
Mlawa, ca. 1914-17. Picture postcard of the town during World War I. Russian prisoners of war, are led away by German soldiers. (yarg120po2535)
Równe, September 30, 1921. Portrait of a young man in uniform. (yarg120po3322)
Unknown location, 1902. All the Jewish soldiers of the 48th Ukrainian Dragoon Regiment of the Czarist Army. (yarg120po_forwardmay1902)
Vilna, 1914-1918. Outdoor portrait of Dr. Elias Sedlis. (yarg120po5997)