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Yitskhok Rudashevski in 1938. Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Israel/ Photo Archive
July 19, 2024, 11:00 am
The new Anne Frank? Diary of teenager in Vilna Ghetto made available to read online
YIVO exhibition demonstrates 'importance of youth voices in historical narratives'
By Jenni Frazer
Shmuel Zygielbojm
March 9, 2023, 6:53 pm
Millions of Bund pages to be digitised for posterity
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will make publicly available papers of Jewish labour movement founded in Lithuania, including speeches delivered by anarchists and revolutionaries
By Jenni Frazer
Leonard Blavatnik
November 6, 2020, 10:05 am
£770k boost for largest collection of Jewish history outside Israel
Blavatnik Family Foundation awarded sum to the Center for Jewish History for the preservation, digitisation and archival processing of collections
By Jewish News Reporter
From the YIVO archive: Jewish socialists at a picnic around 1902
October 18, 2018, 12:29 pm
Hidden gem of Jewish world comes to London
Jenni Frazer meets the man in charge of a unique archive of ‘just about everything to do with the Jews of  Eastern Europe’
By Jenni Frazer
Left: Autobiography of Bebe Epstein, a 5th-grade student in the Sofia Gurevich School, 1933-1934. Right: Pinkas (Communal Record Book) of the Hevra Lomde Shas (Learners of the Talmud Society) in Lazdijai, a town in southwestern Lithuania, 1836. Credit: Courtesy of Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.
October 25, 2017, 4:35 pm
Trove of 170,000 documents lost during the Holocaust discovered
Chest of files thought to have been destroyed by the Nazis unearthed, including manuscripts, religious texts and poems
By JTA
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