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Group portrait of the members of the Vilna Hazzanim (cantors) Quartet, which continued to be known as such even after it expanded.

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    Group portrait of the members of the Vilna Hazzanim (cantors) Quartet, which continued to be known as such even after it expanded.
    Group portrait of the members of the Vilna Hazzanim (cantors) Quartet, which continued to be known as such even after it expanded. Among those pictured is Akiva Durmashkin (first row, second from the left). Durmashkin was a prominent Vilna musician, music teacher and director of the choir of the Great Synagogue. He was in the Vilna Ghetto and was killed on Ponary.

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    Group portrait of the members of the Vilna Hazzanim (cantors) Quartet, which continued to be known as such even after it expanded.

    Among those pictured is Akiva Durmashkin (first row, second from the left). Durmashkin was a prominent Vilna musician, music teacher and director of the choir of the Great Synagogue. He was in the Vilna Ghetto and was killed on Ponary.
    Date
    1941
    Locale
    Vilnius, Lithuania
    Variant Locale
    Lithuania
    Wilno
    Wilna
    Vilna
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

    Rights & Restrictions

    Photo Source
    The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Provenance: Ginunski Family
    Source Record ID: RN36-7
    Published Source
    There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 140
    Restriction
    NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

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    Artifact Photographer
    Arnold Kramer
    Biography
    Gedalia Ginunski was a cantor in the Beth Midrash in Eisiskes as well as in the shtetl of Astrin. He also was a member of the Vilna Hazzanim (cantors) Quartet. Together with his wife and children, Gedalia was deported to Auschwitz, where he was forced to perform for the Germans. After an injury to his foot, he was sent to the gas chambers. His wife and children also perished.
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