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Group portrait of members of the Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair, from Eisiskes and surrounding towns.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39161
Group portrait of members of the Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair, from Eisiskes and surrounding towns. Among those pictured are: back row, right to left: Hinde Gutlevski, visitor, Reshke Gutlevski, visitor, Kreinke Bichwid, Muni Zahavi, Bichwid (sister of Kreinke); second row from the top, right to left: Motke Burstein, Flora Kagan, Shmuel Berkowicz, unknown, Matikanski, unknown, Bichwid (first name unknown), Rina Lewinson, Hanan Polaczek; third row from the top, right to left: Etele Lubetski, visitor, Esther Katz Resnik, Miriam Koppelman Ruskin, Hayyim Streletski, unknown; front row, right to left: visitor from Olkeniki, Bavale Polaczek, visitor, Leipke Politacki, visitor. Muni Zahavi, Rina Lewinson, Shmuel Berkowicz, and Bavale Polaczek immigrated to Palestine. All the others were murdered during the Holocaust.

Group portrait of members of the Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair, from Eisiskes and surrounding towns.

Among those pictured are: back row, right to left: Hinde Gutlevski, visitor, Reshke Gutlevski, visitor, Kreinke Bichwid, Muni Zahavi, Bichwid (sister of Kreinke); second row from the top, right to left: Motke Burstein, Flora Kagan, Shmuel Berkowicz, unknown, Matikanski, unknown, Bichwid (first name unknown), Rina Lewinson, Hanan Polaczek; third row from the top, right to left: Etele Lubetski, visitor, Esther Katz Resnik, Miriam Koppelman Ruskin, Hayyim Streletski, unknown; front row, right to left: visitor from Olkeniki, Bavale Polaczek, visitor, Leipke Politacki, visitor.

Muni Zahavi, Rina Lewinson, Shmuel Berkowicz, and Bavale Polaczek immigrated to Palestine. All the others were murdered during the Holocaust.

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 R
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

About This Photograph

Biography
Feige (Flora) Kagan was born in Mazeikiai, Lithuania December 5, 1914. She considered Letzkava Lithuania her home town, living there until 1934 when she moved to Kovno. She was very active in the Zioinist movement and had planned to immigrate to Israel, however she meet Bernard Stern from Taurage, Lithuania who was a pharmacist and she decided to marry him and stay in Lithuania.

In 1939, a son, Benzion Stern, was born. They were detained in the Kovno Ghetto beginning August , 1941. Feige's young son, Benzion, was murdered during the Children's Action in March, 1944. She was deported to Stutthof on July 1944. Her prisoner number was #44165. Feige was liberated by the Russian Army and returned to Lithuania to look for her family. Her husband, Bernard Stern, was liberated from Dachau in May 1945. They were reunited in Lodz, Poland. A daughter, Marlene Stern, was born on January 27, 1947 in Munich Germany. Bernard was the chief pharmacist in the Landsberg DP camp. The family immigrated to the United States in May 1949.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Arnold Kramer

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
The Shtetl Foundation
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Provenance: Resnik Family
Source Record ID: RN3-34
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2021-05-03 00:00:00
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