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Three Generations of a Jewish Family, Vilnius, Lithuania
Intergenerational family portrait of a Jewish family in the late 1930’s
Subject
- History
Language
English — USUpdated
![Formal portrait of 16 family members of various ages](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/Prewar_Family_in_Vilnius_FH386.jpg?itok=siHAHTV4)
Three generations of a Jewish family in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in 1938 or 1939. In the eighteenth century, Vilnius (Vilna in Yiddish) was a center of Jewish learning. By the 1920s and 1930s roughly a half of the city’s inhabitants were Jews.
Credit:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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