Overview
- Caption
- A Saturday night party at the home of Dina Weidenberg.
(right to left) David Leib Levin; Miriam Kabacznik; her brother Shepske (in the back); Dina Weidenberg, Yehiel Blacharowicz; Kreinele Kanichowski; Dov Wolotzki; Frumele Abelov, also a successful shopkeeper; an unidentified visitor; and Sarah Lejbowicz, sister of photographer Rephael.
David-Leib survived the war in the forest, and Miriam and Shepske in hiding. Dov was liberated from Dachau. Kreinele was killed by members of the AK, including Pietka Barteszewicz, the caretaker of the Polish school where Kreinele once studied. All the others were killed by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes. - Photographer
- Rephael Lejbowicz
- Date
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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
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The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Kabachnik FamilySource Record ID: RN8-11 - Published Source
- There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 272
- Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ABELOV FAMILY (EISISKES) BLACHAROWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS INTERIORS JEWS (POLISH) KABACZNIK FAMILY (EISISKES) KANICHOWSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) LEJBOWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) LEVIN FAMILY (EISISKES) SOCIAL GATHERINGS TABLES TOWER OF FACES WEIDENBERG FAMILY (EISISKES) WOLOTZKI FAMILY (EISISKES)
- Photo Designation
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LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families K
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Record last modified:
- 2005-05-13 00:00:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1124793