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Members of the Orkin family pose outside.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 14407
Members of the Orkin family pose outside. Pictured from left to right are: Meir, Leiba, Kalman and Malka Orkin.

Members of the Orkin family pose outside.

Pictured from left to right are: Meir, Leiba, Kalman and Malka Orkin.

Date
Circa 1936
Locale
Bialystok, [Bialystok] Poland
Variant Locale
Belostok
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Meir Orkin

About This Photograph

Biography
Meir Orkin is the son of Kalman and Leiba Orkin and the brother of Malka Orkin. His father was a tailor in Bialystok. Meir was a leader of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Bialystok before immigrating to Palestine in 1936. After the war he married his childhood friend, Haika Grosman.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Meir Orkin
 
Record last modified: 2001-12-27 00:00:00
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