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Benyamin Kabacznik, a Polish patriot poses for a formal portrait in his officer's uniform.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39417

Benyamin Kabacznik, a Polish patriot poses for a formal portrait in his officer's uniform.

Though he had been an officer in the Polish army, he was murdered by members of the Polish Home Army on February 20, 1944, with his wife, son, ten other Jews, and Aneza Bikewiczowa, the righteous Polish woman who hid them in a pit on her farm.

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Caption: Benyamin Kabacznik, a Polish patriot poses for a formal portrait in his officer's uniform.

Though he had been an officer in the Polish army, he was murdered by members of the Polish Home Army on February 20, 1944, with his wife, son, ten other Jews, and Aneza Bikewiczowa, the righteous Polish woman who hid them in a pit on her farm.
Photographer: Yitzhak Uri Katz
Date: 1928 December 08
Locale: Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale: Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

Rights & Restrictions

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

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Zimmerman Family

Source Record ID: RN14-46
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 622
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) KABACZNIK FAMILY (EISISKES) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (JEWISH) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (POLISH) TOWER OF FACES
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families Z

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer

Record last modified:: 2002-10-02 00:00:00
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