The YIVO building in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lith.), 1935, with a Yiddish banner welcoming participants in its first international conference. Attendees on the steps and on the path in front of the building. Young man at left in last scene is Shleyme Kowarski, later an anti-Nazi partisan in the Vilna Ghetto. (Amateur film shot by American Jewish travel agent Gustave Eisner.) (YIVO) | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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