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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	Image	Date Approved	Question	Posts
305	Translation - Tombstone		11/6/2002	Please translate. Thank you!	View the post with its 1 response
306	Translation - Tombstone		11/6/2002	Please translate. Thank you!	View the post with its 2 responses
299	Translation - Tombstone		11/3/2002	I'd be most grateful for a translation.	View the post with its 2 responses
300	Translation - Yiddish		11/3/2002	A letter from Moses Montefiore	View the post, there are no responses
301	Translation - Yiddish		11/3/2002	Please help me translating this Page of Testimony to English. Points 4, 13 and 14 are most important to me, but the rest would be also helpful.	View the post with its 1 response
291	Translation - German		10/30/2002	Uncle's birth record in Vienna	View the post, there are no responses
292	Translation - German		10/30/2002	Uncle's birth record in Vienna 2	View the post, there are no responses
293	Translation - German		10/30/2002	Uncle's birth record in Vienna 3	View the post, there are no responses
294	Translation - German		10/30/2002	Uncle's birth record in Vienna 4	View the post, there are no responses
297	Do you recognize?		10/30/2002	Can anyone recognise this place (from an EIDB manifest)? Could it be an anglicisation of Borzna, in Chernigov Gubernia, now in the Ukraine?	View the post with its 1 response
286	Translation - Yiddish		10/28/2002	This is a cabinet photo of my grandmother, father and aunt taken in Russia about 1901 or 02- it replaces VM1875	View the post, there are no responses
287	Translation - Tombstone		10/27/2002	The revealed tombstones from the STEPAN cemetery	View the post with its 1 response
288	Translation - Tombstone		10/27/2002	Tombstone in Stepan cemetery: BARUCH son of Rabbi IFERGAN	View the post with its 2 responses
289	Translation - Tombstone		10/27/2002	Tombstone from Stepan cemetery: The imortant guy MOSHE ARIE son of ABRAHAM TSVI	View the post with its 3 responses
285	Translation - Yiddish		10/27/2002	This is the back of a cabinet photo of my grandmother, father and aunt taken about 1901 or 02	View the post, there are no responses
283	Translation - Hungarian		10/24/2002	This is for the 1828 Census Project. Please help me read the names by the highlighted numbers. I am not certain what that first letter is.	View the post with its 2 responses
284	Sharing Document		10/24/2002	Is anyone related / familiar with Jou pasternak M.G.M film producer B.9/19/1901 D.9/13/1991 ? (I am...)	View the post with its 1 response
281	Translation - Yiddish		10/23/2002	Can someone help translate this letter from Yiddish? Entire letter is this and the subsequent image. Many thanks!	View the post, there are no responses
282	Translation - Yiddish		10/23/2002	Second part of previous submission.	View the post, there are no responses
290	Translation - Hebrew		10/21/2002	Need help translating this tombstone. The family surname is LANDE. It may be Friam LANDE's or his father's tombstone. Would be grateful for any help. Thanks.	View the post with its 7 responses

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Last Updated 1 Apr 2019
ViewMate idea and author: Bernard Israelite Kouchel ז״ל
Web Author: Josef Herz, updated by John Berman, Gary Sandler

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