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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Yellow metal badge with a brown Croatian letter Z to identify a Jew

  2. Yesa Gudzij collection

    Letter of May 1939, from Moshe Zaks in village in Lithuania, to son and family in U.S., in Yiddish. Includes envelope letter was sent in, and two photographs.

  3. Yessoula Cohen identification card

    The identification card was issued to Yessoula Cohen, Henry Levis's uncle.

  4. Yiddish Gymnasium in Panevėžys Panevėžio žydų vidurinė mokykla (Fond 1137)

    Consists of students’ files, class journals, minutes of meetings of the teachers' council, records of entrance examinations; requests from parents for the admission of their children to school; class journals, graduation certificates, etc. The latter include photos of students.

  5. Yiddish Intermediate School in Plungé Plungės žydų vidurinė mokykla (Fond 781)

    Minutes of teachers' council meetings, examinations records; copies of graduation certificates, including photos of students; class journals with the names of students and their grades.

  6. Yiddish Intermediate School in Skuodas Skuodo žydų vidurinė mokykla (Fond 796)

    Records of the Jewish Intermediate School in Skuodas. The collection contains minutes of meetings of the teachers’ council, records of the entrance examinations; requests from parents to admit their children to school; graduation certificates that include photos of students, class journals, etc.

  7. Yiddish King Lear; Habima Players

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Prominent actor, Solomon Mikhoels, of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, in dressing room, applying makeup. Starkly lit closeup of Mikhoels as King Lear. Another prominent Jewish theater group in the Soviet Union, the Habima Players, perform an ancient Hebrew dance.

  8. Yiddish production (?) of Shakespeare play in Russia

    An excerpt from a stage production of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet."

  9. Yiddish sound recordings from the Medem Library

    Yiddish sound recordings from the collection of the Medem Library, Paris. Selections include Holocaust-related music recorded in postwar France and prewar repertoire largely recorded in Poland. Track lists attached.

  10. Yiddish State Theater performs Shakespeare's King Lear starring Mikhoels

    Filmed version of Yiddish State Art Theater (Moscow) production of King Lear, starring Solomon Mikhoels as Lear and Benjamin Zuskin as the Fool. Wide shots of curtained stage and opening of curtains to reveal throne. Grand entrance for Lear. MS of Lear giving speech in Yiddish, daughter and Fool on either side of throne. King Lear's first speech in the play (Act I, Scene 1), refers to dividing the kingdom in three... that strife may be prevented... : "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there."

  11. The Yiddish Voice

    Abraham Brumberg on "The Yiddish Voice" radio program, primarily in Yiddish. Disc 1: August 8, 2001, Abraham Brumberg talks with Mark David about the new book "Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Antifascist Committee" (2001), edited by Rubinstein. He also presents the poetry of Soviet writers. Disc 2: August 13, 2008, A program in memory of the late Dr Brumberg, featuring Forverts writer Iosif Lakhman.

  12. Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ YiVO Institute in Wilno (Fond 287)

    Various records related to the activities of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YiVO) in Wilno (Vilnius), including correspondence with Jewish organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia and other countries; records related to the activities of various Jewish organizations and political parties (Zukunft, Bund, Po'alei Zion, Keren Kayemet, Keren Hayesod, etc.); copies of Jewish newspapers published in Poland; financial records, and registry for incoming and outgoing correspondence etc.

  13. Yitsḥaḳ Patish personal archives (RG-95-70) יצחק פטיש - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Izhak Patish (1914-2002) contains letters, articles, poetry, extracts from the diary of Ronya Margalit-Git (sister Masha) in Yiddish, songs in Yiddish, papers on Czechoslovakia Jewry, records and correspondence from his mission as an Israeli ambassador in Austria.

  14. Yitzchak Singer papers

    Contains correspondence of Va'ad Ha'Hatzala for a visa to the United States for Yitzchak Singer, a Holocaust survivor and yeshiva student who was found in Bergen-Belsen. Among the documents is a letter signed by Rosalie Stive of the immgiration department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; and letters from rabbis in the United States to immigration authorities about accepting the boy to the yeshiva with a full scholarship, signed by Rabbi Yosef Shevlowitz and Rabbi Yosef Baumel. After many efforts, Yitzchak immigrated to Israel.

  15. Yizkor

    "Yizkor" In Memory of the Victims of the European Jewish Catastrophe 1940-1945. In Yiddish. Recitation/play by actor and Łódź ghetto survivor Shammai Rosenblum. Issued under the auspices of Yad Washem (sic) and the World Jewish Congress. For contents, see album back cover.

  16. YMCA boys, boxing

    Group of boys at YMCA in shorts, smiling, boxing, rolling carpet out to box. Various shots.

  17. YMCA in Poland, 1948

    Young boys at the YMCA playing ping pong and boxing.

  18. YMCA: swim team, singing, basketball; sights in Prague

    Man operates a movie reel projector, children watch and cheer the movie. Boys swim in a pool and cheer each other on. Man sings to a classroom. Man plays piano. Boys play basketball. CUs of Czech language booklets. The Charles Bridge in Prague. Young men learn how to play basketball. Large buildings in Prague. CUs, signs for the YMCA. Men stop and read sign, then enter the building. A group of people in a room sing together and perform hand motions to the song. Camera tracks backwards over Charles Bridge. The Prague Castle. CUs, basketball players. More city scenes of Prague, streets, build...

  19. YMCA; music recital; rehabilitation of youth, Prague, 1946

    EXT, VS of Prague, large municipal building, trolley car passing through frame, etc. Prague prison guillotine shadow sequence; CU of a prisoner who scrubs the floor; recital hall in Prague, young men and women are gathered for a performance and social. VS of young boys and girls lining up for tickets, then VS, CUs of them inside a theater, laughing and smiling, watching a film? Stage show? VS, CUs of the children lauging and enjoying themselves during the performance. INT, VS, young men at a large cafeterias style table, eating,drinking and horsing around. Very lively, footage. Women settin...

  20. YMCA; Prague

    Street scenes, trolley, storefronts in Czechoslovakia. CU sign reads “YMCA KAVARNA JIDELNA VCHOD PASAZI.” Young men with a coach on a basketball court. CU coach demonstrates how to hold the ball. Young boys in an indoor pool. Boys sitting on the side of the pool cheering swimmers. SOME OVERLAP WITH FILM ID 2322 (03:30) Audience. Couple at head of room, camera and lights seen to the left. Woman stands and speaks. CU audience. They get refreshments. EXT Charles Bridge in Prague, stone arch at one end of bridge. St. Vitus Cathedral. CU statue. Man on ladder takes down a sign from the side of a...