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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:Drogobych.png|thumb|500x500px|Drogobych | [[File:Drogobych.png|thumb|500x500px|Drogobych, Ukraine - Pharmacy on Stryska Street, c. 1917. Source: Miriam Weiner Archives. |alt=]] | ||
[[File:Shepetovka.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Shepetovka | [[File:Shepetovka.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Shepetovka, Synagogue closed down by the authorities in the early 1960s (photo c. 1935); Source: Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | ||
[[File:Kiev babiyar.png|thumb|Kiev - Holocaust memorial at Babi Yar Ravine, 1997 | [[File:Kiev babiyar.png|thumb|Kiev, Ukraine - Holocaust memorial at Babi Yar Ravine, 1997. Photo credit: Miriam Weiner. |alt=|center|500x500px]] | ||
[[File:Sudilkov.png|thumb|500x500px|Sudilkov - synagogue destroyed | [[File:Sudilkov.png|thumb|500x500px|Sudilkov, Ukraine - synagogue destroyed, c. 1942 (rendering 1948). Source: Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | ||
[[File:Mogilev - Podolsky.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Mogilev-Podolsky | [[File:Mogilev - Podolsky.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Mogilev-Podolsky, Jewish cemetery, with thousands of tombstones, 1993. Photo credit: Miriam Weiner. ]] | ||
[[File:Smozhe.png|center|thumb|520x520px| | [[File:Smozhe.png|center|thumb|520x520px|Smozhe, a village in Western Ukraine (formerly known as Galicia, 1997. Photo credit: Miriam Weiner. ]] | ||
[[Category:Ukraine]] | [[Category:Ukraine]] | ||