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Members of Newly Formed Temple Beth El

Date: 1940
Description: Members of newly formed Temple Beth El. Holocaust survivor Rabbi Manfred Swarsensky is seated in the front row, third from the left.
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Magda Herzberger and Her Piano Class

Date: 1940
Description: Magda Moses Herzberger (third row, fourth from the left) with her piano class in Cluj, Romania.
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Street Car in Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: A street car in Krakow photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf while on a tour of German-occupied Poland. He labeled it in his scrapbook."Jews ...
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Ghetto Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion.
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Quarantine Fence

Date: 1940
Description: A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had...

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