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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.

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

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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.
    Date
    1936
    Locale
    Warsaw, Poland
    Variant Locale
    Warszawa
    Varshava
    Warschau
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Meir Orkin

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Meir Orkin

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    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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    2001-12-27 00:00:00
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