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Browse the VM archive to view user-generated images of Jewish historical subjects, documents, culture and places, up close. A new response feature now allows you to add your response to those older, often unanswered archived images. Please respond with relevant information when you can. Here's how. Sort the first column (VM ID) by clicking on the column title for the oldest or the latest images. Select an image. Next click "Add Response".

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VM ID	Category	Date Approved	Question	Posts
5056	Translation - Polish	3/5/2006	Death Lejb Chersz Rozenfeld	View the post, there are no responses
5057	Translation - Other	3/5/2006	Rabbi who married Julia Katz and Jacob DeVries 6 Nov 1870 in New York City. Can only read Rabbi of Congregation and 734 5 St.	View the post, there are no responses
5058	Translation - Russia	3/5/2006	Russian Death record of Gittel Prusel from Vabalninkas, Lithuania	View the post, there are no responses
5059	Translation - Other	3/5/2006	Answer from Romnian Archives	View the post, there are no responses
5060	Translation - Yiddish	3/5/2006	1914 postcards	View the post, there are no responses
5061	Translation - Yiddish	3/5/2006	1914 Postcard in cursive Yiddish	View the post, there are no responses
5042	Photo Identification	3/1/2006	Extract from Ship Manifest. Pekarsky's (Reisel,Schlaime, Pesie, Leib) arrived at Ellis Island on the Rotterdam 3 Aug 1914. Need explanation of hand written notes.	View the post, there are no responses
5043	Translation - Russia	3/1/2006	Marriage Record of Mordka Nordon and Itta Chaia Gruda	View the post, there are no responses
5044	Translation - Polish	3/1/2006	Marriage Record of Mendel Manowicz and Faiga Chana Zacharowicz	View the post, there are no responses
5045	Translation - Polish	3/1/2006	Death Record of Sura Jurysz, Drobin	View the post, there are no responses
5046	Translation - Other	3/1/2006	What are the middle 2 lines? Is that a 2 or an accent mark above "Scharifka?" This is from an American bank log book for a ship ticket purchase in 1913. Is this all Russian written in English letters or Polish?	View the post, there are no responses
5047	Tombstone	3/1/2006	Old Jewish Gravestone in Kursenai, Lithuania	View the post with its 1 response
5048	Translation - Yiddish	3/1/2006	These are two names taken from the LDS microfilm of Great Synagogue marriages - 12 Apr 1809. I am not interested in the two people getting married as much as the faint illegible note below their names seeming to refer to Nahum or Menahem Sofer. I don't know if this is Hebrew, Yiddish, or German. Can anyone read this note? I am also submitting examples of Nahum/Menahem Sofer's name for comparison.	View the post, there are no responses
5049	Translation - Yiddish	3/1/2006	Taken from the LDS microfilm of Great Synagogue marriages: Hannah Phillips (Hindel b. Nahum Sofer Segal), 15 Aug 1809 - showing one example of how the name in question [Nahum Sofer] looks for comparison with my previously submitted document.	View the post, there are no responses
5050	Translation - Yiddish	3/1/2006	Taken from the LDS microfilm of London Great Synagogue marriages: Moses Phillips (Moshe b. Menahem Segal Sofer), 20 Nov 1811 - for comparison with my previous submission showing another example of the appearance of Menahem Sofer's name.	View the post, there are no responses
5051	Translation - Other	3/1/2006	Letter from Slovak Archives	View the post, there are no responses
4715	Tombstone	3/1/2006	Old tombstone	View the post with its 1 response
4716	Do you recognize?	3/1/2006	family photo taken 31/1/1946 sao paulo brazil	View the post, there are no responses
4717	Do you recognize?	3/1/2006	family zonnenstein(sonnenstein)	View the post, there are no responses
4718	Translation - German	3/1/2006	Request for loose translation of handwriting of Meir b.Isak EISENSTADT (c1670-1744) in Heb./Yid. plus citation in print (German).	View the post, there are no responses

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