Vilner coachman, Yoshke Shneur Mordekhai Bleicharowicz, drives his son Honke in his horse-drawn wagon.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39033

Overview

Caption: Vilner coachman, Yoshke Shneur Mordekhai Bleicharowicz, drives his son Honke in his horse-drawn wagon.

Yoshke Shneur Mordekhai survived the war hiding on the farm of a Polish peasant named Adamowicz and living among partisans in the forest. Honke, his four other children and his mother perished in the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes.
Photographer: Ben-Zion Szrejder
Date: 1941
Locale: Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale: Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

Photo Source: The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Sonenson Family

Source Record ID: RN1-115
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 304
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: ANIMALS ANIMALS (HORSES) CARTS/WAGONS CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) TOWER OF FACES
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S