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Six friends who were members of Club 21.

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    Six friends who were members of Club 21.
    Six friends who were members of Club 21. In 1921, twenty-one teenage girls, all Hebrew students established an apolitical friendship society and named it Club 21. Their younger sisters decided to establish a similar club, simply named Our Circle. Many of these young women emigrated or moved to larger towns during the 1930s. Zipporah Katz (later Sonenson) is on top. Front row on the left is Matle Sonenson (later Shereshefski), sister-in-law of Zipporah Katz Sonenson. Zipporah Katz Sonenson was murdered by the Polish Home Army in October 1944 after the liberation of Eisiskes. Matle Sonenson Shereshefski survived in Siberia and later immigrated to the United States.

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    Six friends who were members of Club 21.

    In 1921, twenty-one teenage girls, all Hebrew students established an apolitical friendship society and named it Club 21. Their younger sisters decided to establish a similar club, simply named Our Circle. Many of these young women emigrated or moved to larger towns during the 1930s.

    Zipporah Katz (later Sonenson) is on top. Front row on the left is Matle Sonenson (later Shereshefski), sister-in-law of Zipporah Katz Sonenson. Zipporah Katz Sonenson was murdered by the Polish Home Army in October 1944 after the liberation of Eisiskes. Matle Sonenson Shereshefski survived in Siberia and later immigrated to the United States.
    Photographer
    Yitzhak Uri Katz
    Date
    1930
    Locale
    Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Eishyshok
    Eshishuk
    Eyshishkes
    Ejszyszki
    Eishishkes
    Lithuania
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

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    Photo Source
    The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Provenance: Yaffa Eliach
    Source Record ID: RN2-15
    Published Source
    There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 499
    Restriction
    NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

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    Artifact Photographer
    Arnold Kramer
    Record last modified:
    2002-10-07 00:00:00
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