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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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Note: Viewmate's first saved image is #227.

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VM ID	Category	Date Approved	Question	Posts
2616	Translation - Russia	9/12/2004	Birth Record of Perla Manowicz	View the post, there are no responses
2617	Translation - Polish	9/12/2004	Polish Death Certificate 1848	View the post, there are no responses
2618	Translation - Polish	9/12/2004	Polish Death Certificate 1831	View the post, there are no responses
2619	Translation - Polish	9/12/2004	Polish Death Certificate 1829	View the post, there are no responses
2620	Translation - Russia	9/12/2004	Death Record - Kosow Lacki	View the post, there are no responses
2600	Do you recognize?	9/8/2004	My mother in this photo. I am her and George Lissner's only child. I was born in Berlin on 2/18/42. I am trying to find any relatives on my mother's side with this photo.	View the post, there are no responses
2601	Photo Identification	9/8/2004	George Lissner, son of Rosamunde & Louis Lissner, born May 27,1889 in Berlin. I am their only child, David, I want to know if any members of the Lissner family are still alive.	View the post, there are no responses
2602	Translation - Yiddish	9/8/2004	Need translation of Yiddish to English from back of photograph, please	View the post, there are no responses
2603	Photo Identification	9/8/2004	Do you recognize these people? I am also uploading the back--dated 1934 and written in Yiddish...probably from Romania.	View the post, there are no responses
2604	Translation - Yiddish	9/8/2004	This is the back of the picture....written in Yiddish probably in Romania...I hope someone can translate this for me....THANKS!!!!	View the post, there are no responses
2605	Photo Identification	9/8/2004	Can you identify this photo? There is no writing on the back...probably from Romania or possibly Canada	View the post, there are no responses
2606	Translation - Hebrew	9/8/2004	I believe that this is the grave of my great-great grandfather Rabbi Alexander Taubes (from Iasi, Romania). He died in 1913. Could anyone translate the headstone?	View the post with its 1 response
2607	Photo Identification	9/8/2004	This photo says on the back Lazar and wife. It is my great-great grandfather Lazar/Leon Dornbaum. Does anyone know the name of his wife?? The photo was probably taken in NYC between 1905 and 1918, when he died.	View the post, there are no responses
2608	Translation - Russia	9/8/2004	Mlawa Death 1895	View the post, there are no responses
2609	Translation - Russia	9/8/2004	Mlawa Death 1894	View the post, there are no responses
2610	Translation - Russia	9/8/2004	Mlawa Birth 1891	View the post, there are no responses
2611	Translation - Russia	9/8/2004	Mlawa Vital Record	View the post, there are no responses
2612	Translation - Hebrew	9/8/2004	Hebrew to English translation of text on gravestone.	View the post with its 1 response
2589	Translation - Other	9/5/2004	Any help in reading the handwriting at the bottom of the photo will be greatly appreciated as I have no idea who this man is. I am not sure if the writing is Russian or not. He could be a Kravetsky or a Redler, or not... Thanks for your help!	View the post, there are no responses
2590	Translation - Polish	9/5/2004	Can someone help me with this translation? response privately	View the post, there are no responses

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