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pub. Sept. 14, 1924 Warsaw Kipnes, Menakhem
("Jewish Daily Forward" Yiddish caption) "The oldest Warsaw Jewish
`izvoztshik' [cabby]. Moshe Dovid the `drozhkazh' [droshky driver] is
82 years old and is happy and cheerful and very popular with the
public."

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1930"s Warsaw Vishniac, Roman
A street scene: a policeman giving a ticket to a cyclist.
pub. May 4, 1924 Warsaw

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pub. Sept. 14, 1924 Warsaw Kipnes, Menakhem
("Jewish Daily Forward" Yiddish caption) "Jewish bootblacks... Yankl
and Moyshe, over whom all the Nalevkes [Nalewki, the main Jewish
commercial street of Warsaw] is abuzz."

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in English:) "A Jewish beauty of
Warsaw, dressed in a Polish peasant costume," smiling, holding a stalk of grass to her teeth. 1938 Warsaw Vishniac, Roman

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pub. Nov. 16, 1924 Warsaw Kipnes, Menakhem
Six Jewish men in traditional dress "on a park bench in Warsaw": two
conversing, one dozing, and three reading one newspaper. ("Jewish
Daily Forward.")

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Children and adults in the courtyard of an apartment house.
pub. June 8, 1924 Warsaw

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Masha Pekhter. (Published under the heading "Portraits of Jewish
Beauties" in the "Jewish Daily Forward.")
pub. June 15, 1924 Warsaw

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Late 1930's Warsaw
Strollers at the corner of Ujazdowskie Avenue and Matejki Street.

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in English:) "Jewish emigrants
lined up at the American Consulate in Warsaw, patiently waiting their
turn for a visa. Note the various types and dresses of the emigrants."
pub. June 15, 1924 Warsaw

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pub. Jan. 27, 1929 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter
Studio portrait: "Members of a girls' sports club with their director
[center]." "...Recently, hundreds of such clubs have sprung up all
over Poland." ('Jewish Daily Forward' captions in English and
Yiddish.)

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish:) "Jew photographed
in a 'besmedresh' [house of study and worship]... poring over a page
of the 'gemore' [Talmud]."
pub. August 3, 1924 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter

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pub. Feb. 10, 1929 Warsaw
Portrait of an unidentified "Hasidic schoolboy..." "`The pensive
student'..." ('Jewish Daily Forward' Yiddish and English captions.)

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish:) "Old City in Warsaw.
The 'Mokem' ['Place']. This is the very oldest part of Warsaw. ...a
beautiful picture of a marketplace on the 'Mokem' photographed
especially for the "Forwards'...." pub. August 3, 1924 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter

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1880's Warsaw
Studio portrait in a dress gaberdine: "`His first photograph'.
Yitskhok Khaim Bukshpan, a Hasidic young man of Warsaw, being
photographed for the first time..." "His first picture..." ('Jewish
Daily Forward' Yiddish and English captions, 1929.)

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pub. June 2, 1929 Warsaw
Meyer Taub, "a respectable Jew" (Jewish Daily Forward' Yiddish
caption).

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish:) "A Warsaw Jewish
porter at work. Photographed by our photographer A. Kacyzne."
pub. August 10, 1924 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter

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pub. Oct. 13, 1929 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter
"For the souls of those who are no longer among us. Reb Khaim Yekhiel,
an 80-year-old 'shames' [sexton] of a Warsaw synagogue lighting
candles [for the souls of the dead] on the day of Yom Kippur Eve."
('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish.)

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in English:) "A striking study of avigorous Jewish porter of Warsaw."
pub. August 31, 1924 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter

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('Jewish Daily Forward' caption in Yiddish:) "A picture of Jewish
hardship and poverty in the back alleys of Warsaw."

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pub. Nov. 10, 1929 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter
Portrait study: "Little boys with big heads. Yeshiva boys... studying
Talmud on their own." (Yiddish caption. From a photo essay in the
"Forward': "The Eternal Students...")

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pub. Nov. 17, 1929 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter
Portrait study at a sewing machine: "An interesting type of an
observant tailor" (Yiddish caption. Part of a photo essay in the
'Jewish Daily Forward': "Jewish Workers In The Old Country.")

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pub. Nov. 17, 1929 Warsaw Kacyzne, Alter
Portrait at work: "A hardworking tinsmith." (English caption. Part of
a photo essay in the 'Jewish Daily Forward': "Jewish Workers In The
Old Country.")

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A picture postcard of a monument in Warsaw to the astronomer
Copernicus.city's streetcar lines. 21914
Benjamin

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Jewish survivors

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Palace on the lake in Lazienki Park. Not far from the palace is a
statue of Frederic Chopin, where people gathered to hear performances
of his music.

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Pictured are Chaya Nortman (center), her daughter Dvora (left), and
Dvora's two children.

Date: Circa 1930
Locale: Warsaw, Poland; Varshava; Warschau
Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Harry Nortman

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Warsaw, 1928

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