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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.
Photograph of a group of people seated and standing outside to mark the anniversary of the massacre of the…
Photograph of six children seated in front of a memorial to the six million Jews. Seated, left to right,…
Photograph of Fruma Toporek and two other women studying at university on January 10, 1941. Fruma is located in…
Photograph of the dedication of the fifth memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Romanov, Ukraine (Romaniv/Dzershinsk, Ukraine),…
Photograph of Bronya Baraz-Torgovetskaya with her two daughters taken in a studio setting. It is noted that, “Bronya was…
Photograph of Michail Roytburd and his wife taken in 2003….
Handwritten letter in Russian. Written in black ink by Mikhail Mirkin on June 29, 1944, addressed to his parents…
Photograph of the opening of a memorial to the ghetto in the village of Ilyino (Il’ino) in the Tver…
Photograph of Inda Arber posing at a gathering….
Photograph of Pasha Aliakseyeva with two friends at a military hospital where she worked in Minsk, 2000….
Photograph of Simon Mensher with his family, in Chicago, IL, c. 1990s….
Photograph of four young women, including Fruma Toporek, nee Derin, pictured on the right….
Photograph of Iosif Gusarev at 2 or 3 years old with his mother Nadezhda Vorobeva, 1935….
Photograph of a group of young women in Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth group. They have on uniforms of…
Photograph of Inessa Yurkevich’s parents, her father, Samuil Yurkevich, and her mother, Irina Rukhavets, sitting on a stoop while…
Photograph of Meyer Khayut with his parents before WWII, in 1938, Ukraine….
Photograph of Raisa Ryklina (2nd row, right) with friends pre-war, March 1941….
Photograph of Fanya Weissman, with sister Golda c. 1919….
Photograph of the Feinberg family and friends by the River Venta in Papile, Lithuania, mid-1930s. Standing, left to right:…
Photograph of Yelizaveta Voloshina’s family in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine, May 1, 1941. Back row, left to right: Mottle (cousin),…
Photograph of Benzion Gorodyansky with his grandchildren in Piryatin (Pyriatyn), Ukraine, 1939. Back row, left to right: Aaron Meyer…
