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Suitcase in hand, Meir Orkin walks with his mother, Leiba, to the Bialystok train station, whence he will be departing for Palestine.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 14406
Suitcase in hand, Meir Orkin walks with his mother, Leiba, to the Bialystok train station, whence he will be departing for Palestine.

Suitcase in hand, Meir Orkin walks with his mother, Leiba, to the Bialystok train station, whence he will be departing for Palestine.

Date
1936
Locale
Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale
Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
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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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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