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 second from the left), Avigdor Katz (seated on the right), Moshe Kaplan (standing second from the right), Elisha Koppelman (standing second 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
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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
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Sonenson FamilySource Record ID: RN1-41 - Published Source
- There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 351
- Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BAR/BAT MITZVAH BASTUNSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) BOTWINIK FAMILY (EISISKES) CHILDREN/YOUTH CHILDREN/YOUTH (WHO PERISHED) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS INTERIORS JEWS (POLISH) KAPLAN FAMILY (EISISKES) KATZ FAMILY (EISISKES) KOPPELMAN FAMILY (EISISKES) TABLES TOWER OF FACES
- Photo Designation
-
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S
- Record last modified:
- 2005-05-13 00:00:00
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