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Research expeditions throughout Eastern Europe locate and interview the last generation of survivors in the regions native to their families for centuries. These are precious, historically fleeting, opportunities to tape in-depth interviews with survivors - in their native local Yiddish, preserving the language, folklore, and oral history. Please find out more how you can support this vital need...
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| Administrative director and coordinator Ruta Puisyte and Camera man Sepp R. Bruderman | Driver Grigory Jechvedov | Avram Mordechai Kit, b. 1923, Barovke (today Silene), Latvia | ||
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| Avrom Lemchen, b. 1922, Riga, Latvia | Prof. Dovid Katz with Avrom Lemchen, b. 1922, Riga, Latvia | Bliuma Florenc, b. 1927, Varklan, Latvia | ||
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| Group photo, from right: D. Katz (the VYI), V. Florenc, her daughter, R. Puisyte (the VYI) | Bella Bogdanova, b. 1926, Liepaja, Latvia | Doba Rolleva, b. 1925, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia | ||
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| Prof. Dovid Katz interviews Doba Rolleva, b. 1925, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia | Leizer Gizir, b. 1927, Novgorod-Volynsk, Ukraine | Leizer Gizir, b. 1927, Novgorod-Volynsk, Ukraine | ||
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| Hanna Ferber, b. 1919, Mitau (today Jelgava), Latvia | Meijer Meler, b. 1929, Liepaja, Latvia | Hanna Raizberga, b. 1927, Lutsin (today Ludza), Latvia | ||
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| Hanna Raizberga, b. 1927, Lutsin (today Ludza), Latvia | Rocha Sandler (right), b. 1926, Lutsin (today Ludza), Latvia with her daughter Chase | Roza Krumere, b. 1919, Fridrichstat (Jaunjelgava), Latvia | ||
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| Samuil Glezerov, b. 1920, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia | The VYI Assistant Director Ruta Puisyte and S. Glezerov | Sara Kit, b. 1924, in Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia. There are more than 4000 aprons in her apartment. | ||
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| Prof. Dovid Katz with a daughter of Sara Kit in the Chabad Lubavitch school, Riga | Tevja Joselson, b. 1919, Mitau (today Jelgava), Latvia | Tsila Flor-Lukjanova, b. 1917, Rezekne, Latvia | ||
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| Tsila Flor holds her pre-war graduation certificate of the Medical school in Riga | Rabbi Menachem Barkahan, Chairman of the Riga Jewish religious community “Shamir”, Latvia | Exhibition of the synagogue models of Latvia, Riga Jewish religious community “Shamir” | ||
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| Chava (b. 1926) and Meyer (Margers) (b. 1925) Westerman, both born in Riga, Latvia | Zalmen Jakub, b. 1919, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia | Zalmen Jakub, b. 1919, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia | ||
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| Zelda Adimir, b. 1924, Rezekne, Latvia, with Prof. Dovid Katz | Zelda Zarecka, b. 1923, Dvinsk (today Daugavpils), Latvia | Riga panorama | ||