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A vendor sells ice cream to children at the Vilna Street entrance to Eisiskes near a special welcoming gate built in honor of a visiting Polish-Catholic church official.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39170
A vendor sells ice cream to children at the Vilna Street entrance to Eisiskes near a special welcoming gate built in honor of a visiting Polish-Catholic church official. The inscription in Hebrew reads: "May you be blessed at your arrival and departure." There is a Jewish Star of David on the right and the Polish eagle on the left.

A vendor sells ice cream to children at the Vilna Street entrance to Eisiskes near a special welcoming gate built in honor of a visiting Polish-Catholic church official.

The inscription in Hebrew reads: "May you be blessed at your arrival and departure." There is a Jewish Star of David on the right and the Polish eagle on the left.

Photographer
Yitzhak Uri Katz
Date
1930
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

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: RN3-43
Published Source
There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 282
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-07 00:00:00
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