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Collection: Departure

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Date:	July 11, 1937
Location:	Latvia
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Group portrait of the wife (standing, 2nd from right) and daughters (seated, center) of Abram Halpern, the commissar for Jewish firemen in Liepaja, with a group of relatives or friends in a field, planning to depart (some hold suitcases).

Date:	1921
Location:	Rovno
Photog:	Shpunberg, D.

Description:
Overhead view of a crowd of people in a corridor at the local HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) office waiting to file for visas to emigrate to America. (Yiddish and English signs, extreme l and r) "Manager. Cashier. Director. General Information."

Date:	1930
Location:	Dunilovichi
Photog:

Description:
Zionist youth gathered for a portrait to bid farewell to two of their members (the Schneider brothers) leaving for 'hakhsharah' (training for pioneering settlement in Palestine).

Date:	1932
Location:	Grimalov
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Wolf Nusbaum with members of his family, posing for a farewell family portrait in front of the train that will carry him from Grzymalow to Tarnopol, the first leg of his journey to America.

Date:	1925
Location:	Mlawa
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Group portrait taken on the occasion of a farewell gathering to celebrate Perla Eisenberg's emigration to Palestine.

Date:	1930
Location:	Szydlow
Photog:

Description:
Farewell portrait in front of the Ksieski family store: fashionably dressed and about to leave for Paris, Leybtshe says goodbye to his mother Soreh while his father Meyer and brothers Avrom, Moyshe and Motl pose side by side in traditional coats and caps.

Date:	ca. 1930s
Location:	Warsaw
Photog:	n/a

Description:
A farewell dinner for members of Mizrachi (a religious Zionist party) who are leaving for Palestine.

Date:	Summer 1919
Location:	Vilnius
Photog:

Description:
Board of the Vilna Yiddish Writers and Journalists Association at a farewell to S. Ansky on his departure to Warsaw: (center) Ansky; (back row, l-r) Kh. Linski, M. Weinreich, Sh. Niger, Z. Segalowitch, A. Morewski, (unidentified), Goldshmit, P. Novick.

Date:
Location:	Lublin
Photog:

Description:
Cover of an album of city scenes, showing the municipal emblem: a goat eating grapes. (1939 farewell gift to Paula Margolies from the Erlikh family). (Yiddish) "...as a memento of your old `heimat' [homeland] when you are on the other side of the sea."

Date:	1921
Location:	Warsaw
Photog:	Kacyzne, Alter

Description:
People waiting on line in the courtyard of the HIAS building. (One of over 100 photographs taken by Alter Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities.)

Date:	1921
Location:	Warsaw
Photog:	Kacyzne, Alter

Description:
Crowds of emigrants inside the shipping office of the Red Star - American Line. (One of over 100 photographs taken by Alter Kacyzne on emigration activities.)

Date:	1921
Location:	Warsaw
Photog:	Kacyzne, Alter

Description:
Emigrants pose in the open doorway of the train which will carry them to the port in Gdansk; officials stand nearby. (An oven can be seen through the open doorway.) (One of over 100 photographs taken byAlter Kacyzne on emigration activities.)

Date:	1921
Location:	Warsaw
Photog:	Kacyzne, Alter

Description:
Men, women and children pose among their bundles on a passenger train which will take them to the port in Gdansk. (One of over 100 photographs taken by Alter Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities.)

Date:	Oct. 1923
Location:	Tarnow
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Posing in fur coats for a studio portrait on the day of their emigration: Leon Lewniowski with his sons, Edward and Irving (who later changed Lewniowski to Lewis).

Date:	Turn of the century
Location:	Lodz
Photog:	n/a

Description:
Studio portrait of four generations of a family. Grandparents, parents and children pose along with a portrait of an absent family member (?), a man posing on a bicycle.