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

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

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    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

    Rights & Restrictions

    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

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    Administrative Notes

    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.
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