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Group portrait of four young Jewish men in Gorky.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 25517
Group portrait of four young Jewish men in Gorky. Pictured from left to right are the three Lewin brothers: Yuri, Abram and Misha. At the right is their cousin, Jasha Kushnir.

Group portrait of four young Jewish men in Gorky.

Pictured from left to right are the three Lewin brothers: Yuri, Abram and Misha. At the right is their cousin, Jasha Kushnir.

Photographer
Ester Ajzen Lewin
Date
1945
Locale
Gorky, [Russia] USSR
Variant Locale
Gor'Kiy
Photo Designation
JEWISH REFUGEES: SEARCH FOR SAFE HAVENS (1933-1945) -- Emigration/Refugee Assistance -- In USSR
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ester Ajzen Lewin

About This Photograph

Biography
Ester Lewin (born Estera Ajzen) is the daughter of Chaim Josef and Necha (Schumacher) Ajzen. She was born October 5, 1919 in Chelm and had four sisters: Chaika, Mania, Malka and Ethel. After finishing school Estera worked in Foto-Film Venus, a photography studio in Chelm. Following the German invasion of Poland, the Ajzen family fled to the Soviet zone. A few months later, in January 1940, they were deported to the Viatka labor camp in the Komi SSR. After their release in April 1941, Estera and her family moved to Gorky, where her father died a few days later, on April 9, 1943. While in Gorky, Estera met Abram Lewin, a Soviet Jewish soldier from Derazhnya, Ukraine. The couple was married on February 8, 1944. After the war Estera and Abram settled in Poland, where they remained until immigrating to the United States in 1956.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Ester Ajzen Lewin
 
Record last modified: 2001-02-26 00:00:00
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