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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.
Military decoration, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, awarded by the Soviet Union to Mikhail Zhilin as a…
Miniature Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) printed in Warsaw, late 19th century, in a hinged gold case with magnifying glass built…
Lot of four diaries written in Yiddish by Irving Leavitt (Israel Jankelewicz) while in Poland, c. 1942. Translations of…
Photograph of Irving Leavitt wearing his partisan uniform in Chelm, Poland, March 15, 1945….
Photograph of four people in a partisan detachment dated February 1944. From left to right; commissar and commander of…
Photograph of a group of Russian partisan resistance fighters from the Lenin Brigade. The image was taken, using a…
Photograph of Renny (Rifka Grynblat) Kurshenbaum wearing a uniform and riding a bicycle while working in the Polish resistance…
Photograph featuring Aron Derman with his Hashomer Hatzair group, a Zionist youth movement. Slonim, Poland (later Belarus), dated 1937….
Postcard with Cossacks on horseback carrying swords fighting Nazi soldiers. In the middle, there is a soldier holding a…
Handwritten letter in Russian on letterhead from Yakov Khariton on the Eastern front (Red Army) to his wife, Raisa,…
Photograph of Aron M. Alter’s mother, Olga Schinder (Golda Aronova), with her two grandchildren, Aron’s children. From left to…
Handwritten letter in Russian, from a Central Navy Archive, certifying Olga Schinder for her military service. Odessa, Ukraine, February…
Affidavit from witnesses that Maria Gershevich and Rosa Shvets were in the Mogilev-Podolsky ghetto from June 1941 until 1942…
Photograph of the Roytshtein family, 1941. From left to right; Riva, Yakov, Michael, and Maria Roytshtein….
Photograph of a house on Shornaya Street in the Minsk ghetto, Belarus. The large window on the house’s 1st…
Photograph of Matus Stolov’s family taken in Minsk, Belarus, 1940. From left to right; Fanya (Korngold) Stolov (mother), Matus…
Photograph of Lena Pechenezhskaya (‘Big Lena’). She was declared a Righteous Person posthumously in 2001 by Yad Vashem. The…
Photograph titled “My mother Sarah (1900) and my father Lazav (1897)”, picturing the parents of Mikhail Mirkin. Chereya, Belarus….
Photograph titled “Me (1923) [Mikhail]”. Chereya, Belarus….
Photograph of Lucy Tsybulskiy and friend in swimming outfits, on the beach in Poltava, Ukraine, c.1920s or early 1930s….
Photograph of a group of people standing in front of a monument to the six million Jews. Front Row,…
