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Our collection is available for research by appointment only. Please contact the Museum’s registrar at 847.967.4818 or artifacts@ilhmec.org
Please contact the Museum’s registrar at 847.967.4818 or artifacts@ilhmec.org.
Shatsman family, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, 1935. Pictured left to right: Vladimir, Elya (back), Masya, Israel, Barukh, and Michael….
Klara Sukhovitskaia (Bolotina)’s maternal family, Minsk, Belarus, 1933. Pictured top row, left to right: Boris, Klara, and Tanya; middle…
Lidowsky/Kacel family gathering, Riga, Latvia, 1937. Pictured, top row of adults from left to right: Uncle Ljova Odes (perished…
Group of friends, Lake Morskie Oko, Tatra Mountains, Ukraine (present-day Poland), 1927….
Photograph of a grade school class, Ukraine, c. 1940. Yefim Tsybulskiy is pictured in the front row, third from…
The Kapustinsky family, who hid Yevel Sorsher from July 1942 to December 1942, and were recognized as Righteous Among…
Photograph of seven people in Riga, Latvia. From left to right: Susan Mednick, Lois Janger, Fayina Maryasen, Shmuel Schwartzband,…
Photograph of the Vainerman family in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia). From left to right: Boris, Illya (3), and…
Photograph of Naomi Shapiro in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia), April 1987….
Photograph of Alec and Galina Zelichonok during Passover in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia), 1982….
Photograph of the Solovy family in Riga, Latvia, September 5, 1984….
Photograph of Matus Stolov, his wife Victoria, and their daughter, Irina, in Minsk, Belarus, 1980….
Photograph of the Holocaust monument in the Rumbula (Rumbuli) Woods erected by the Soviet government. The word ‘Jews’ is…
Visa documents for entry to Israel from Moskow for Inessa (Yakovlevna) Nedvestskaya, 1998….
Paper invitation for a B’not Mitzvah. The invitation is light orange/brown toned, textured with black script proper right side…
Booklet entitled “Before the Doors Close…:A Guide Book for Soviet Jewry Chairmen”, prepared for the Chicago Action for Soviet…
Diploma for Matus Stolov’s from the ‘Byelorussian Polytechnic Institute’, indicating that he was granted a qualification as ‘Engineer of…
Brown Russian passport for Inda Arber issued in 1989….
Photograph of a group of children from an orphanage including Irene Rogers (fourth from the right), in Andijan (Andijon/Andizan),…
Medal commemorating the 65th anniversary of victory on Germany (1945-2010), awarded by Israel to Jewish Fighters against the Nazis,…
Ribbon bar awarded to Mikhail Zhilin for his service in WWII in the Soviet Union. There are four rows…
