Group portrait of Jewish children attending the Bar Mitzvah party of Avremele Botwinik in Eisiskes.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 38949

Overview

Caption: Group portrait of Jewish children attending the Bar Mitzvah party of Avremele Botwinik in Eisiskes.

Among those pictured are Avremele Botwinik (seated behind the cake), Moshe Bastunski (seated fourth from the right, next to Avremele), Avigdor Katz (seated second from the right), Elisha Koppelman (first on the left), Hillel Botwinik (a brother, standing third from the left), Yitzhak Botwinik (a brother, standing fifth from the left). Only the Bar Mitzvah boy survived the war (as a partisan). Elisha Koppelman was killed by members of the Polish Home Army. The others were killed by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes.
Photographer: Ben-Zion Szrejder
Date: 1939
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: RN1-40
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: BAR/BAT MITZVAH BASTUNSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) BOTWINIK FAMILY (EISISKES) CHILDREN/YOUTH CHILDREN/YOUTH (WHO PERISHED) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS INTERIORS JEWS (POLISH) KATZ FAMILY (EISISKES) KOPPELMAN FAMILY (EISISKES) TABLES TOWER OF FACES
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S