Overview
- 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: Frischer FamilySource Record ID: RN26-31 - Published Source
- There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 311
- Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Biography
- Avraham Rushkin and Miriam Koppelman Rushkin had a son Elisha and a daughter Sarale. Miriam (Mirke) died in 1940. Sarale was murdered in the Dyatlovo ghetto in August 1942. Avraham, a dentist, went from his hiding place in the forest to a former patient, a Polish farmer, to ask for food for him and his son. After a warm reception and a gracious supper, the farmer shot Avraham at close range. Elisha was caught by the Germans. In order not to waste bullets, they split open the head of the six-year-old boy with the butt of a machine gun. Though they left him bleeding in the snow, Elisha survived the war.
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- 2004-05-10 00:00:00
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