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

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39161

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Caption: 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. Feige (Flora) Kagan and Esther Katz Resnik also survived. All the others are believed to have ben murdered during the Holocaust.
Photographer: Ben-Zion Szrejder
Date: 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: Resnik Family

Source Record ID: RN3-34
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: BERKOWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) BICHWID FAMILY (EISISKES) BURSTEIN FAMILY (EISISKES) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) KOPPELMAN FAMILY (EISISKES) LEWINSON FAMILY (EISISKES) LUBETSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) MATIKANSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) POLACZEK FAMILY (EISISKES) POLITACKI FAMILY (EISISKES) RESNIK FAMILY (EISISKES) RUSHKIN FAMILY (EISISKES) TOWER OF FACES ZAHAVI FAMILY (EISISKES) ZIONIST GROUPS (HASHOMER HATZAIR) ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families R

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer
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.