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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
4041	Translation - Russia	6/19/2005	Death certificate of Lejba SZCZUPACKI, Need translation of whole document THANKS!!!	View the post, there are no responses
4042	Translation - Russia	6/19/2005	Death certificate of Dvera SZCZUPACKA, need translation of entire document. THANKS!!	View the post, there are no responses
4043	Translation - Polish	6/19/2005	Perla DOMB - Certificate of Birth	View the post, there are no responses
4044	Translation - Polish	6/19/2005	Golda DOMB - Certificate of Birth	View the post, there are no responses
4045	Translation - Polish	6/19/2005	Marriage of Freyda ZYLBERKRANTZ Szymon Lejb DAB	View the post, there are no responses
4046	Do you recognize?	6/19/2005	Can you read this name ? from St Petersberg or Mosscow "SPLOTZKIN" is totally unknown	View the post, there are no responses
4047	Translation - Yiddish	6/19/2005	I am requesting a translation of the section in red brackets. It is describing the trade that the oldest son of the letter writer is learning. Phoenetically, it is something like "Tsinaten makher" or " naten makher". Could it even be " He is apprenticing with Nathan Makher."???	View the post, there are no responses
4048	Translation - Other	6/19/2005	Ellis Islamd Passenger Manifest Can anyone identify the address?	View the post, there are no responses
4049	Translation - Other	6/19/2005	Ellis Island Passenger Manifest. Can someone identify the name of the sister?	View the post, there are no responses
3722	Translation - Hebrew	6/19/2005	This is the tombstone of my great-grandfather Marton FISCHER. He is burried in Gyongyos, Hungary. I would greatly appreciate a translation of the Hebrew text. Thank you. UPDATE: Here lies The "Chaver" (friend, highly respected or very knowledgeable in Torah) "Reb" (Mr.) Mendel Hersch (or Hirsch) Fischer. Son of Mr. Aharon/Aaron Shmuel Died to the sorrow of his family on Yom Hakipurim (Day of Atonement - 10 Tishrei) In the year 5665 (19 Sept 1904) May his soul be bound up in everlasting life His mother's name Gittel/Gitl	View the post with its 1 response
3723	Translation - Hebrew	6/19/2005	This is the tombstone of my great-grandmother Fanny HANNOVER. She is burried in the Kozma cemetery, Budapest, Hungary. I would greatly appreciate a translation of her Hebrew name. Thank you.	View the post with its 1 response
3724	Translation - Russia	6/19/2005	1. Can someone tell me what class, this Odessa man was from? 2. This woman's father was a member of the petty bourgeois, middle class. How did her class differ from #1, above?	View the post, there are no responses
3725	Translation - Russia	6/19/2005	Odessa Census: What is native tongue EBP? Can you tell me the town where this person studied? What was this occupation? Can you tell me how he was involved in the military?	View the post, there are no responses
3726	Translation - Yiddish	6/19/2005	Zablotsky postcard from Poland	View the post, there are no responses
3727	Photo Identification	6/19/2005	Picture side that goes with Zablotsky postcard	View the post, there are no responses
3728	Tombstone	6/19/2005	Tombstone of Dr. David Lever I know this is difficult to see. Any thoughts on interpretation would be appreciated.	View the post with its 1 response
3729	Tombstone	6/19/2005	Tombstone of Victor George Lever I know this is difficult to see. Any thoughts on interpretation would be appreciated.	View the post with its 1 response
3730	Translation - Polish	6/19/2005	Document (Color enhanced to bring out faded lettering)	View the post, there are no responses
3731	Photo Identification	6/19/2005	Is this guy Zoltan (Eliezer) Deutsch from Tornalja, Slovakia, or am I wrong? Has anyone known him or his family?	View the post, there are no responses
3708	Translation - Polish	6/15/2005	lease translate this document from Polish to English. I appreciate very much your help	View the post, there are no responses

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