Group portrait of young Jewish women who were members of the "Club 21" in Eisiskes.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 38916

Overview

Caption: Group portrait of young Jewish women who were members of the "Club 21" in Eisiskes.

Among those pictured are Zipporah Katz (seated on the right), Kumin (second from the right), Etele Yuranski (fourth from the right), Geneshe Kaganowicz (far left) and Matle Sonenson (second from the left). Zipporah, Geneshe and Matle later became sisters-in-law. Matle survived the war in Siberia; Etele was killed in the Radun ghetto on May 10, 1942; Kumin died in Auschwitz; Zipporah was killed by members of the Polish Home Army in October 1944. The others were killed by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes.
Photographer: Yitzhak Uri Katz
Date: Circa 1926 - 1929
Locale: Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale: Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

Photo Source: The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Sonenson Family

Source Record ID: RN1-7
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 500
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) KAGANOWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) KATZ FAMILY (EISISKES) KUMIN FAMILY (EISISKES) SOCIAL CLUBS SONENSON FAMILY (EISISKES) STUDIO PORTRAITS TOWER OF FACES WOMEN YURKANSKI FAMILY (EISISKES)
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S