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==Historical Photos== | ==Historical Photos== | ||
The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/imagesearch.php '''Image Database'''] on Miriam Weiner's website contains photographs and postcard views of many towns and cities throughout Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and other select countries dating back to the early 1900s. These include pre-WWI and current town views, photos of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and Holocaust memorials. It's a great way to see what your ancestor's shtetl may have looked like at the time they lived there. | The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/imagesearch.php '''Image Database'''] on Miriam Weiner's website contains photographs and postcard views of many towns and cities throughout Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and other select countries dating back to the early 1900s. These include pre-WWI and current town views, photos of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and Holocaust memorials. It's a great way to see what your ancestor's shtetl may have looked like at the time they lived there. | ||
[[File:Bialystok Cem with Pogrom monument.png|thumb|500x500px|Bialystok, Poland: Jewish Cemetery with Pogrom Monument in Background, 1944; photo credit: Miriam Weiner. ]] | [[File:Bialystok Cem with Pogrom monument.png|thumb|500x500px|Bialystok, Poland: Jewish Cemetery with Pogrom Monument in Background, 1944; photo credit: Miriam Weiner. |alt=|left]] | ||
[[File:Bialystok Market.png|thumb|500x500px|Bialystok, Poland: Market Square, c. 1930; Miriam Weiner Archives. |alt=|left]] | |||
[[File:Lomza Synagogue.png|none|thumb|427x427px|Lomza, Poland: Great Synagogue, c. 1917; Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | [[File:Lomza Synagogue.png|none|thumb|427x427px|Lomza, Poland: Great Synagogue, c. 1917; Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | ||
[[Category:Poland]] | [[Category:Poland]] | ||