Credits

The material assembled on this website comes from a variety of sources: archives, other websites, and private family collections. The presence here of these hundreds of photos and documents is thanks to the generosity and hard work of many archivists, librarians, and web administrators, and we thank them all warmly.

Archives and archivists:

• Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives: Janice Rosen
• Ghetto Fighters House Museum and Photo Archive: Dafna Itzkovich and Zvi Oren
• Jewish Museum Vienna: Dominik Cobanoglu
• Joint Distribution Committee Archives: Misha Mitsel
• Leo Baeck Institute: Tracey Beck
• Nathan and Solomon Birnbaum Archives: David and Eleazar Birnbaum
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive: Nancy Hartman
• YIVO Institute: Lyudmila Sholokhova, Ilya Slavutskiy, Vital Zajka

Online Archives and Websites:

• Cleveland Jewish News: Cheryl Sandler
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Jewish Women’s Archives: Abigail Belyea
• JPRESS: Eyal Miller

Family and personal collections:

• Rabbi Yaakov Bender
• Devorah B. Cohn photo archive, courtesy of Naftali Cohn
• Shamira Gelbman
• Joel Rosenberg
• Mindy Schaper
• Rabbi Joseph Sporn family archive, courtesy of Kalman and Shimon Sporn
• Basya Stern

Institutional Support:

• Chancellor Jackman Chair at the University of Toronto
• The New Media Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center

Writers and Translators:

• Masha Y. Kalmanovitch

Other contributors:

• Pierre Anctil
• Herb Basser
• Chaim Sznicer

And for their help:

• Zachary Baker: assistance with online resources
• Lee Bearson: graphic design
• Leslie Ginsparg Klein: research help
• Kathryn Hellerstein: hosting the first concert/talk at UPENN
• Rachel Manekin: location of documents
• Isabella Rosenbaumas: inspiring this website through www.batkamaat.org
• And especially: Ula Madej-Krupitski: research assistance, reproduction of Polish archival material, translation from Polish, review of Polish place names, and photos from Kraków