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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.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 39687
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.

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 Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families G
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

About This Photograph

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.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Arnold Kramer

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
The Shtetl Foundation
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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