Uzpaliai Documents from YIVO |
| YIVO,
founded in 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) as the
Yiddish Scientific Institute, is now known as the YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research and is located in New York City. Among
its preeminent collection of eastern European history is a group
of documents from Uzpaliai, part of the Record Group 2, Collection
of Lithuanian Jewish Communities. |
| Bev and Arky Berkal have obtained copies of many of those documents from the history of our town and have translated them for us. We are able to share them with you courtesy of YIVO and Chief Archivist Fruma Mohrer and Archivist Gunnar Berg. |
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Click on each document in order to see a full-sized copy and translation. |
YIVO Document 3839 - Election of the new Vaad Hak’hilah 1921 YIVO Document 3918 - Affidavit of citizenship YIVO Document 3922 - Divorce YIVO Document 3923 - Affidavit of birth |
