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Two young women pose by a fence surrounding a Jewish-owned pasture.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39017
Two young women pose by a fence surrounding a Jewish-owned pasture. Geneshe Kaganowicz is sitting, and Matle Sonenson is standing next to her. The two best friends later became sisters-in-law after Geneshe married Matle's brother Leibke. In the background is the Catholic church at Juryzdyki.

Two young women pose by a fence surrounding a Jewish-owned pasture.

Geneshe Kaganowicz is sitting, and Matle Sonenson is standing next to her. The two best friends later became sisters-in-law after Geneshe married Matle's brother Leibke. In the background is the Catholic church at Juryzdyki.

Photographer
Ben-Zion Szrejder
Date
1941
Locale
Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale
Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

About This Photograph

Biography
Mattle Sonenson married Israel Shereshefski. They were deported to Siberia in 1940 which ended up saving their lives. After the war they immigrated to the United States along with their two sons Asher and Yossef.

Geneshe Kaganowicz married Mattle's brother, Aryeh (Leibke) Sonenson. An avid sportsman and Zionist, he immigrated to Palestine in the 1920s but returned after a few years owning to the economic depression there. At the time of the German invasion of 1941, Geneishe and Leibke had one young son, Meir. Leibke, along with his brother Moshe, was selected by lottery to serve on the Jewish Council. As a result the Germans subjected him to extra humiliations and degradations. Then in September 1941, Geneshe, Leibke and Meir were murdered during the mass killing action in Eisiskes.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
The Shtetl Foundation
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Provenance: Sonenson Family
Source Record ID: RN1-104
Published Source
There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 88
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2002-11-22 00:00:00
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