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

Photograph | Digitized | 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.

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Caption: 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 Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Meir Orkin

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Meir Orkin

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CHILDREN/YOUTH GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) WOMEN YOUTH (13-20 YEARS) ZIONIST GROUPS (HASHOMER HATZAIR) ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Zionist Activity/Hachsharot

Administrative Notes

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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