Members of the Sonenson family visit the shtetl Selo, a community for the insane.
Overview
- Caption
- Members of the Sonenson family visit the shtetl Selo, a community for the insane.
Sitting on the ground is Leibke (Aryeh) Sonenson and his wife Geneshe. Leibke (Aryeh) Sonenson and his wife Geneshe and their son, Meir were killed by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes. - Date
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1941
- Locale
- Dekeshene, [Vilnius; Valkininkas] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Lithuania
Selo
Dekshna - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation
- Event History
- The mental asylum of Selo was established in the town of Dekeshene, a small Jewish farming village one mile from Olkeniki. In the middle of the 19th century, many of its residents immigrated to Palestine and the town's population dwindled. Eventually, one resident decided that the isolated, quiet community would be an ideal location for an asylum for the mentally ill and converted his home into a pension. People from throughout the region brought their ill relatives to the town, more pensions were established and eventually majority the town's residents were mentally ill.
[Source: Eliach, Yaffa. There Once Was a World. Boston: Little Brown, 1998. pp. 383-385.]
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Shefsky FamilySource Record ID: RN7-33 - Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Record last modified:
- 2002-10-02 00:00:00
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