Young Jewish men and women pose around a table during a Saturday night party.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39169

Overview

Caption: Young Jewish men and women pose around a table during a Saturday night party.

Pictured standing from right to left are: Dov Wilenski, Shmuel Berkowicz, Avraham Politacki, unknown, Muni Zahavi, Motke Burstein, unknown and Rina Lewinson. Sitting from right to left are: Esther Katz, Simha Kaleko, Flora Kagan, unknown, unknown,Bavale Polaczek, unknown, Miriam Koppelman, unknown, unknown. Those who survived the war include Shmuel Berkowicz, Dov Wilenski, and Rina Lewinson who immigrated to Palestine, and Esther Katz, who immigrated to Colombia. Flora Kagan immigrated to the United States.
Photographer: Ben-Zion Szrejder
Date: Circa 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

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

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Resnik Family

Source Record ID: RN3-42
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: BERKOWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) BURSTEIN FAMILY (EISISKES) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) KALEKO FAMILY (EISISKES) KATZ FAMILY (EISISKES) KOPPELMAN FAMILY (EISISKES) LEWINSON FAMILY (EISISKES) POLITACKI FAMILY (EISISKES) RUSKIN FAMILY (EISISKES) SOCIAL GATHERINGS TABLES TOWER OF FACES WILENSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) ZAHAVI FAMILY (EISISKES)
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.