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Children from the Hebrew School work in the school's garden in preparation for immigration to Palestine.

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    Children from the Hebrew School work in the school's garden in preparation for immigration to Palestine.
    Children from the Hebrew School work in the school's garden in preparation for immigration to Palestine. Supervising them are three of their teachers: (right to left) a teacher from the shtetl of Belski, Mr. Okun, and Shaul Schneider (front row, right to left) Avigdor Katz, Moshe Kaplan, Elisha Koppelman, Sheinele Dwilanski; (back row, right to left) Hayya Shlanski, Rachel Koppelman, Leah Michalowski, (first name unknown) Zila, and a girl from the Narodowicz family. Hayya immigrated to America; Leah Michalowski was one of the girls raped by "White Jacket," the Gestapo commander of Eisiskes; Rachel was killed by the Polish Home Army; the others were murdered by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes.

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    Children from the Hebrew School work in the school's garden in preparation for immigration to Palestine.

    Supervising them are three of their teachers: (right to left) a teacher from the shtetl of Belski, Mr. Okun, and Shaul Schneider (front row, right to left) Avigdor Katz, Moshe Kaplan, Elisha Koppelman, Sheinele Dwilanski; (back row, right to left) Hayya Shlanski, Rachel Koppelman, Leah Michalowski, (first name unknown) Zila, and a girl from the Narodowicz family.

    Hayya immigrated to America; Leah Michalowski was one of the girls raped by "White Jacket," the Gestapo commander of Eisiskes; Rachel was killed by the Polish Home Army; the others were murdered by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes.
    Photographer
    Ben-Zion Szrejder
    Date
    1938
    Locale
    Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Eishyshok
    Eshishuk
    Eyshishkes
    Ejszyszki
    Eishishkes
    Lithuania
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

    Rights & Restrictions

    Photo Source
    The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Provenance: Sonenson Family
    Source Record ID: RN1-31
    Restriction
    NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

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    Record last modified:
    2002-10-02 00:00:00
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