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Consists of 29 mainly pre-war photographs from the collection of Peretz Miransky, a member of "Yung Vilno", a group of young artists and writers in Vilnius, Lithuania. Each of the photographs has been described by Anne Miransky [donor].

The Lily Wysinski collection consists of photographs, letters, greeting cards, and other materials concerning the experiences of Fajwel and Lena Szmerkowicz, parents of Lily Wysinski. Also included is a booklet titled "Likwidacja Getta Wilenskiego" (Liquation of the Vilnius Ghetto).

Correspondence, photocopied, from various people in Sandomierz, Poland, to J. Horowitz in New York, 1939-1940, and one letter from nephew of Pauline Cohen, sent to her in Los Angeles, from Vilnius, 1946.

Contains an air mail envelope written while Kaunas was under occupation; five original Vilna Ghetto arrest documents; and an original signed receipt for 18,837 Litai received from the American Joint Distribution Committee, Vilnius, intended for "the Jewish Section for War-Sufferers, Lithuanian Red Cross."

"The collections of the heads of the counties contain important documents concerning the Holocaust in the Lithuanian provinces" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12). The ...

Aan de kop van de titelpagina: Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, Vilnius University. 534 p., [32] p. ill. : ill., krt. ; 25 cm

Irma Gurwicz was born Jeremiahu Irma Gurwicz on December 28, 1911 in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia. His father, Jehuda Gurwicz, was a religious teacher and bookseller. His mother, Szifra Tajtelbaum Gurwicz, was a housewife. The Gurwicz family with their six children moved to Vilna, Poland in 1918, after Poland regained its independence. Irma had five siblings: Berl Bernard, who left Poland for Argentina ...

The Jorek Blocher papers include Blocher’s personal narrative and a newspaper clipping about the narrative. The personal narrative is handwritten in Yiddish and describes Blocher’s wartime experiences in his hometown in Michaliszki, Poland (now Michališki, Belarus) and being hidden by the Dąbrowski family in an isolated cottage near Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). The diary includes four photographs ...

The personal fonds of a famous Jewish collector of ex libris bookplates who was able in the first days of the Second World War to escape to the East of the Soviet Union. After the war he returned to Vilnius. His collection was close related not only to Jewish topics but also to Lithuanian history, culture, and famous people. The files consist of personal documentation, correspondence, photos.

Personal files (Jewish names included) of citizens who have committed crimes or have been suspected in committment of crime (photo of arrested person is included). The files consist of personal information as well as information of the members of the family.