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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
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
2591	Translation - Polish	9/5/2004	1813 marriage of Abraham Meyer, page 1 of 2	View the post, there are no responses
2592	Translation - Polish	9/5/2004	1813 marriage of Abraham Meyer Kohen, page 2 of 2	View the post, there are no responses
2593	Translation - Russia	9/5/2004	This is a 1894 death record from Grajewo for my relative Leib Grosman. I don't know Russian and was hoping someone could translate the record and tell me if the surviving spouse is mentioned. Thank you so much for your assistance.	View the post, there are no responses
2594	Do you recognize?	9/5/2004	This photo is from the US in the 20's or early 30's - possibly friends of my mother's family.	View the post, there are no responses
2595	Do you recognize?	9/5/2004	This photo is from the US in the 20's or early 30's - possibly friends of my mother's family.	View the post, there are no responses
2596	Do you recognize?	9/5/2004	Rosa age 3, taken June 20, 1927 in the city of Bugsolv, Ukraine. Rosa was the daughter of Gittle Berkun. Gittle was the daughter of Pesachia (changed name to Sam Barsky) and Sara (nee Sydnisky). Looking for descendants of Rosa.	View the post, there are no responses
2597	Do you recognize?	9/5/2004	This woman is most probably a daughter or sister to Pesach GOTLIBOVICH, born in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Can anyone provide more positive ID?	View the post, there are no responses
2598	Do you recognize?	9/5/2004	I believe this young woman is related to the KOROSTYSHEVSKY & GOTLIBOVICH family of Cherkassy, Ukraine. She was apparently born in 1903. Does she look familiar to you?	View the post, there are no responses
2599	Translation - Yiddish	9/5/2004	I am in need of a translation from Yiddish to English of my Mother's Great Uncle and his family from 1938.	View the post, there are no responses
2584	Translation - Russia	9/1/2004	Dr.Hal Kershen of Toronto asked me to try and obtain a translation of this Russian document. Thank you Michael Miller	View the post, there are no responses

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