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Group portrait of members of an Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth group in Bialystok.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 14401
Group portrait of members of an Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth group in Bialystok. Among those pictured are Malka Orkin (center, front) and her friend Tusia Goldberg (third from the left). Tusia, whose father later became a member of the Bialystok ghetto Jewish council, survived the war.

Group portrait of members of an Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth group in Bialystok.

Among those pictured are Malka Orkin (center, front) and her friend Tusia Goldberg (third from the left). Tusia, whose father later became a member of the Bialystok ghetto Jewish council, survived the war.

Date
1938
Locale
Bialystok, [Bialystok] Poland
Variant Locale
Belostok
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Zionist Activity/Hachsharot
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Meir Orkin

About This Photograph

Biography
Malka Orkin was the daughter of Kalman and Leiba Orkin and the sister of Meir Orkin. Her father was a tailor in Bialystok and her brother, a leader of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement. Meir immigrated to Palestine in 1936 and after the war married Haika Grosman. Malka perished during the war.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Meir Orkin
 
Record last modified: 2003-12-10 00:00:00
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