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English Translation
of the Photo Captions
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Our thanks to Israel Shifron, chairman of the Mir landsmanschaft, for permission to put this material on the Mir web site. With great appreciation to Eli Beane and Israel Shifron who volunteered to translated these captions and make the story of Mir accessable to many more people. We hope that other Mir researchers will provide translations of photo captions on other pages. (Please contact me if you can help.) These translations are from the Mir, Belarus: Sefer Mir (Memorial book of Mir), Editors: N. Blumenthal, Jerusalem, The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, 1962 (H,Y,E, 768 pages) Digital images of all the pages and photographs referred to can be seen at the web site for Yizkor Books provided by the New York Public Library. http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1284 |
| page or column | Photo Caption (comments) |
|---|---|
| title page | Books of Memorial of Diaspora Communities, The Mir Book, (by the Organization of Olim (Immigrants) from Mir, Edited by N. Blumenthal, photo/Yeshivat Mir - The Mirer Yeshiva (Yiddish), Published by the "Encyclopedia of the Diasporas", Jerusalem |
| back of title page | Stamped: New York Public Library, Astor Lenox and Tilden
Foundations; |
| 38/39 | Children outside Shul |
| 205/206 | This is the market place. (The first building on the left is a pharmacy. It belonged to the Chaimovitz family.) |
| 213/214 | A group of teachers and others active in the folk school. 1929.
(School founded in 1917.) Seating from the right, Giliat, Rivka Kremer, Ester Bernak, Zvia Peker, Feigel Kopelevitz, Moshe Kaminar, Elka Ressel, Pikus, Simcha Resnik* & Leiser Grande. (*Resnik was chairman of the Mir Landsmen in Israel for many years.) |
| Note: Some information in parentheses has been added by the translator and is based on personal knowledge. |
Updated July 2005