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HISTORY TAKES SHAPE, PIECE BY PIECE

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Private collections

Materials from private and family archives — photographs, documents, objects, memories, and other personal records — collected and documented with the help of community ambassadors and the Museum’s academic team.

Photograph of the Gorelik family, residents of the village of Parychy, Gomel Region; one of two photographs remaining from the contributor’s immediate family members. The photograph was taken, presumably in the village of Parychy, in the Gomel region. The photograph is staged.
Photograph

Photograph of the Gorelik family

Photograph of Samson Solomonovich Gorelik, a native of the village of Parichi, Gomel Region. One of two photographs remaining from the contributor’s direct relatives. The man in the photograph is the contributor's great-great-grandfather on her mother's side. Since half of the Parich family had the surname Gorelik, their surnames are the same. The photograph was taken in Moscow in 1932. Where it was printed is unknown.
Photograph

Photograph of Samson Solomonovich Gorelik

Небольшая чёрно-белая фотография, напечатанная на фотобумаге в начале 1930-х годов. Автор фотографии неизвестен. Предположительно, снимок был сделан на одном из американских кораблей, направлявшихся в СССР с группой энтузиастов, ехавших работать на заводах и в промышленности в период активной индустриализации. Точная дата создания неизвестна; ориентировочно — начало 1930-х годов.
Photograph

Photograph from the Cramer family archive

Акварельный портрет, выполненный художником Борисом Кремером (1861–1944), изображающий его жену — Ольгу Аннетту Эмму Этту Кремер (урождённую Гурвич). Работа датируется 1917 годом и является одной из немногих подписанных работ художника из семейной («домашней») коллекции. Предположительно, портрет был создан в Павловске, где семья проживала в тот период.
Artwork

Portrait of Olga Cramer

Public Collections

Materials held by museums, archives, libraries, and other institutions around the world, brought together with their original source and attribution, providing a single point of access to dispersed heritage.

Empty marketplace, shut down by Soviet restrictions against private trade, Shklov, USSR (now in Belarus), 1920s. YIVO.
Photograph

[Empty market place in Shklov]

Oral history interview

Ronya Schwaab interview

Popular autobiographical novellas depicting the life of a middle-class Jewish family in Shklov of the 1890s [Dan Miron, YIVO encyclopedia] first published in weekly installments in Forverts, then as two volumes (Shklover Yidn 1929 and Feter Zhome 1930).
Literature

Shklov Jews

Audio book

Shklov Jews [audio book]

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