Benyamin Sonenson poses for a bar mitzvah portrait with his cousins only days before the massacre of Eisiskes' Jewish population.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39030

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Caption: Benyamin Sonenson poses for a bar mitzvah portrait with his cousins only days before the massacre of Eisiskes' Jewish population.

Benyamin Sonenson's bar mitzvah in September 1941 was the last one to be celebrated in Eisiskes. Standing near the house of Alte Katz are (right to left) Benyamin, Yitzhak Sonenson, Altke Tawlitski, and Hayyim Tawlitski. Standing in the front are Meir Sonenson (right) and Oscar (Asher) Shereshefski.

Yitzhak survived in hiding, Oscar survived in Siberia; all the others were murdered by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes
Photographer: Ben-Zion Szrejder
Date: September 1941
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: RN1-112
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 353
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: BAR/BAT MITZVAH CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS) CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) SHERESHEFSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) SONENSON FAMILY (EISISKES) TAWLITSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) TOWER OF FACES
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S