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People of a Thousand Towns
 



Collection:  Departure

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Frame 48867: Click for full display
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. 
Frame 53653: Click for full display
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."
 
Frame 29688: Click for full display
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 
Frame 30182: Click for full display
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.
 
Frame 32047: Click for full display
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:  
Frame 33945: Click for full display
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.
 
Frame 34763: Click for full display
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:  
Frame 37330: Click for full display
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.
 
Frame 40086: Click for full display
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 
Frame 27869: Click for full display
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.)
 
Frame 27881: Click for full display
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 
Frame 27884: Click for full display
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.)
 
Frame 27886: Click for full display
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 
Frame 34041: Click for full display
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).
 
Frame 31087: Click for full display
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.