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Benyamin Kabacznik, a Polish patriot poses for a formal portrait in his officer's uniform.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39417
Benyamin Kabacznik, a Polish patriot poses for a formal portrait in his officer's uniform. Though he had been an officer in the Polish army, he was murdered by members of the Polish Home Army on February 20, 1944, with his wife, son, ten other Jews, and Aneza Bikewiczowa, the righteous Polish woman who hid them in a pit on her farm.

Benyamin Kabacznik, a Polish patriot poses for a formal portrait in his officer's uniform.

Though he had been an officer in the Polish army, he was murdered by members of the Polish Home Army on February 20, 1944, with his wife, son, ten other Jews, and Aneza Bikewiczowa, the righteous Polish woman who hid them in a pit on her farm.

Photographer
Yitzhak Uri Katz
Date
1928 December 08
Locale
Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale
Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families Z
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: Zimmerman Family
Source Record ID: RN14-46
Published Source
There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 622
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-02 00:00:00
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