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The Solly Disner Collection contains documentation, publications and photographs pertaining to the life of Solly Disner, who immigrated to South Africa from Lithuania where he became a prominent sculptor. The…
The collection contains eight posters created by Marian Stachurski, a contemporary Polish poster designer. The posters were used to advertise plays staged at the Ester Rokhl Kaminski Jewish State Theatre…
The Lithuanian Postcard Collection comprises a number of 'Cabinet Card' style portait photographs take in Lithuania dated back to the 1890's.
The Kopel Family Collection includes images documenting the live events of generations of the Kopel family, including photographs take in Lithuania, correspondence written in Yiddish and many portrait photographs
The Kantor and Tobiansky Family Collection comprises a number of photographs, including many group family photographs, events such as weddings, photographs taken in Malat/Molėtai, Lithuania and postcards and captions written…
Donated by Sally Singer, the Gitta Usdin Photograph and Document Collection consists mostly of published pieces of poetry found in newspapers. Born in Latvia, Gitta wrote mainly in Yiddish. Translations…
The papers in this miscellany comprise letters and greeting cards received by Sara Pascall from her children Avrom, Rosemary and Richard and friends, cheques and the script of a play…
The Yiddish diaries of Miriam Fendel that she wrote between 1928 and 1940 in Ponevezh in Lithuania, together with an English translation by Jack Shmuckler. The collection also includes her…
