The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has launched an important new online resource on Jews and Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Poland: the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland.
The vast online collection, which includes digitized manuscripts, posters, photographs, maps, music and other artifacts, presents
highlights from YIVO’s archival collections on Polish Jewry before the Holocaust. It includes thousands of documents, posters, and photographs from the most significant Polish Jewish collections along with detailed finding aids, online exhibitions and media galleries, and two background essays.
Users can browse the collections and also view galleries, organized slide shows and digital exhibits.
(The project was funded by the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation, with additional support from Leonard and Chana Grunstein in memory of Morris Grunstein.)
Collections include:
Amateur film footage of Jewish communities in Poland from the YIVO Film Archive
Folk, theater, popular, and cantorial music, and interviews with Polish Jews
2 comments on “Important new online resource on pre-WW2 Poland, from YIVO”
I am on your website because I lived in Danzig (Gdansk) from 1933- Dec 1945.
Migrated to Germany and in 1949 migrated to the US. My grandma (Betty Deutschland) was jewish.)
At present I am trying to get my family property in Gdansk back which was confiscated by the polish gov in 1945.
This just for your info
regards
Helmut Schmittz
My mother lived in Danzig fromj1928 to 1945. I would be interested in how you get on with your property, since my mother’s family also lost their property i 1945.