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Nehama Paikowski (right) and her friend, Freeda Yurkanski pose together in winter coats and muffs.

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Nehama Paikowski (right) and her friend, Freeda Yurkanski pose together in winter coats and muffs.

On September 26, 1941, horse-drawn carriages stopped in front of the hospital and took the sick, and mothers who had just given birth and their new-born infants to the mass graves to be killed. Nehama was among the patients who was taken from the hospital to the killing fields. Freeda was also murdered on that day.

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Caption: Nehama Paikowski (right) and her friend, Freeda Yurkanski pose together in winter coats and muffs.

On September 26, 1941, horse-drawn carriages stopped in front of the hospital and took the sick, and mothers who had just given birth and their new-born infants to the mass graves to be killed. Nehama was among the patients who was taken from the hospital to the killing fields. Freeda was also murdered on that day.
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

Rights & Restrictions

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

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Paikowski Family

Source Record ID: RN52-84
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 592
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH CHILDREN/YOUTH (WHO PERISHED) CLOSE-UPS FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) PAIKOWSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) TOWER OF FACES WINTER SCENES YURKANSKI FAMILY (EISISKES)
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families P

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer

Record last modified:: 2004-05-18 00:00:00
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