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Sarah and Lazav Mirkin

July 13, 2022

Photograph titled “My mother Sarah (1900) and my father Lazav (1897)”, picturing the parents of Mikhail Mirkin. Chereya, Belarus.

Mikhail Mirkin

July 13, 2022

Photograph titled “Me (1923) [Mikhail]”. Chereya, Belarus.

Mikhail Mirkin’s letter to his parents and response from Postmaster

July 13, 2022

Handwritten letter in Russian. Written in black ink by Mikhail Mirkin on June 29, 1944, addressed to his parents in Chereya, Belarus. Mikhail, a Soviet

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Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian translation of the online exhibition is made possible With Assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Sponsored by the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future." Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance.

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Survivors and their families at the Il'ino ghetto memorial, Il'ino, Russia, 2000.