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Wooden sofa with upholstered seat, featuring an image of clasped hands and Hebrew inscription on seat back.

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Wedding Sofa

1838

Papercut featuring angels, baskets of flowers, pair of lions holding two Hebrew tablets in center, various animals, and instruments, surrounded by decorative border.

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Paper Cut—Mizraḥ

Moses Michael Rosenboim

1848

Photograph of tombstone with Hebrew text, engraved columns, and decorative objects on top.

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Tombstone of Torah Scholar

1855

Papercut featuring a chair in the center with lions above, decorated with floral motifs and Hebrew text.

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Paper Cut—Brit Milah

Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker

1862

Photograph of interior of building featuring menorah and decorated Torah ark.

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Janów Sokólski Synagogue

1700s

Painting of men carrying coffins of victims as men and women bow, with bishop and clergy looking on from hill.

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The Funeral of the Five Victims

Aleksander Lesser

1861

Shield with Hebrew text, gold columns, griffins, and crown on top.

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Torah Shield (Piotrków)

Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]

1766

Photograph of tall, rectangular monument in front of apartment buildings, depicting seven figures gathered around central figure and smaller sculpture of a seven-branched menorah flanked by lions in front of monument in left foreground.

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Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland)

Nathan Rapoport

1948

Photograph of people standing in a field upon which lie dead bodies.

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Kerch, Crimea (Grief)

Dmitri Baltermants

1942

Photograph of women and children in ghetto facing photograph on the far side of a fence, interacting with another child on opposite side of fence with Star of David badge on his back.

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Leave Taking before Deportation

Mendel Grossman

1942

Printed page featuring a large, waving flag with Yiddish text, and Yiddish text above and below.

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Cover for Peretz Markish’s Book of Poetry, Far folk un heymland (For People and Homeland)

A. Geftera

1943

Portrait painting of a bald man, whose face looks gaunt and injured, looking at the viewer.

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Portrait of Yitzhak Katzenelson

Lea Lilienblum

1943