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Members of the Sonenson family stand in the snow by a wooden wall.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39242
Members of the Sonenson family stand in the snow by a wooden wall. Standing on the left: Shalom Sonenson Ben-Shemesh and his wife Miriam. On the right: Miriam's relatives the Bergmans. The little girl is Gittele Sonenson, the oldest daughter of Shalom and Miriam. The Bergmans immigrated to Cuba. Miriam Sonenson was murdered in the Radun ghetto. Gittele died of TB while hiding in a cave on the Korkus farm a few days before liberation. Shalom Sonenson (Ben-Shemesh) survived the Holocaust hiding in various locations.

Members of the Sonenson family stand in the snow by a wooden wall.

Standing on the left: Shalom Sonenson Ben-Shemesh and his wife Miriam. On the right: Miriam's relatives the Bergmans. The little girl is Gittele Sonenson, the oldest daughter of Shalom and Miriam. The Bergmans immigrated to Cuba. Miriam Sonenson was murdered in the Radun ghetto. Gittele died of TB while hiding in a cave on the Korkus farm a few days before liberation. Shalom Sonenson (Ben-Shemesh) survived the Holocaust hiding in various locations.

Date
1941
Locale
Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale
Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S
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: Shefsky Family
Source Record ID: RN7-34
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2002-11-22 00:00:00
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