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Avigdor Dwilanski (center) with his two brothers Rabbi Moshe-Leib Krisilov (left) and Rabbi Kosolewicz (first name unknown).

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39131

Avigdor Dwilanski (center) with his two brothers Rabbi Moshe-Leib Krisilov (left) and Rabbi Kosolewicz (first name unknown).

Each brother had taken a different name in order to avoid service in the tzarist army. Reb Avigdor studied at the Volozhin yeshivah and was an accomplished scholar, but supported himself as a baker.

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Caption: Avigdor Dwilanski (center) with his two brothers Rabbi Moshe-Leib Krisilov (left) and Rabbi Kosolewicz (first name unknown).

Each brother had taken a different name in order to avoid service in the tzarist army. Reb Avigdor studied at the Volozhin yeshivah and was an accomplished scholar, but supported himself as a baker.
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

Rights & Restrictions

Photo Source: The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Resnik Family

Source Record ID: RN3-3
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 234
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CLERGY/RABBIS/CHAPLAINS (JEWISH) DWILANSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) ELDERLY FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) JEWS (RELIGIOUS) KRISILOV FAMILY (EISISKES) TOWER OF FACES
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families R

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer

Record last modified:: 2002-10-07 00:00:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1124579

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