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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
1851	Translation - Russia	3/21/2004	Name? on back of photo found among grandparents papers. Could be Russian or Hungarian.	View the post, there are no responses
1852	Translation - Russia	3/21/2004	Text on back of photo of unknown people found among grandparents papers. Text could be either Russian or Hungarian.	View the post, there are no responses
1853	Photo Identification	3/21/2004	This is Ghenendal Weisman. She was supposedly married to a Louis (Lewis) WEISMAN. She is supposed to be from Craiova in Romania. Is the wig she is wearing a cultural tradition or a Jewish tradition and why was it worn?	View the post, there are no responses
1854	Translation - Other	3/21/2004	This is the back of a photo that we know the gentleman named Rubin but I don't know what else it says and wondered if someone knew. There are two women in the photo that we don't know. Hoping maybe the other writing are their names. Maybe Yiddish or Romanian.	View the post, there are no responses
1855	Translation - Hungary	3/21/2004	Registration form, Holocaust Documentation Center, Budapest - Page 1	View the post, there are no responses
1856	Translation - Hungary	3/21/2004	Registration form, Holocaust Documentation Center, Budapest -- Page 2	View the post, there are no responses
1857	Translation - Russian	3/21/2004	This is one of two birth records (KANET, Inda Judes or Alta Sura) which came from Bialystok Archive Lomza Branch so my assumption is that this is Russian.	View the post, there are no responses
1858	Translation - Russian	3/21/2004	This is one of two birth records (KANET, Inda Judes or Alta Sura) which came from Bialystok Archive Lomza Branch so my assumption is that this is Russian.	View the post, there are no responses
1817	Translation - Russia	3/21/2004	This is a page from the death records from the town Ostryna, Lida District, Vilna Gubernia for 1900	View the post, there are no responses
1836	Translation - Yiddish	3/17/2004	Blumenfeld family from Latvian book	View the post, there are no responses
1837	Translation - Yiddish	3/17/2004	Blumenfeld family from Latvian book	View the post, there are no responses
1838	Translation - Yiddish	3/17/2004	Blumenfeld family from Latvian book	View the post, there are no responses
1839	Translation - Yiddish	3/17/2004	Blumenfeld family from Latvian book	View the post, there are no responses
1840	Translation - Russia	3/17/2004	Text on photo-card from Ukraine c. 1904	View the post, there are no responses
1841	Photo Identification	3/17/2004	This is Ben FRIEDMAN & Ida WEISMAN in supposed Romanian dress. Does anyone know what region it may be?	View the post with its 1 response
1842	Do you recognize?	3/17/2004	Does anyone recognize this woman? She is in another photo with Rubin WEISMAN, who we know. Her arched eyebrows are alot like Rubin's mother, Ghenendal, who was married to a Louis (Lewis) WEISMAN.	View the post, there are no responses
1843	Tombstone	3/17/2004	This is a very old and difficult to read tombstone from the old jewish cemetery in Prague. Perhaps someone here can read some of it.	View the post, there are no responses
1844	Tombstone	3/17/2004	Another old tombstone from Prague. It is of 1770 and Mosche and Zoldi Brandeis are buried here.	View the post, there are no responses
1829	Translation - Yiddish	3/17/2004	Yiddish post card with New Year's greeting.	View the post, there are no responses
1830	Translation - Russia	3/17/2004	Document circa 1906. Presumed location of origin is Odessa.	View the post with its 1 response

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