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Peasants, some with musical instruments, celebrate the redistribution of land in the region.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39700

Peasants, some with musical instruments, celebrate the redistribution of land in the region.

Luba Ginunski, one of the shtetl's leading Communists, distributed land to five hundred poor Polish peasants in the autumn of 1940. Luba, is pictured dressed in black, speaking to a woman with a white kerchief. She survived the war in the Soviet interior and afterwards immigrated to Israel.

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Caption: Peasants, some with musical instruments, celebrate the redistribution of land in the region.

Luba Ginunski, one of the shtetl's leading Communists, distributed land to five hundred poor Polish peasants in the autumn of 1940. Luba, is pictured dressed in black, speaking to a woman with a white kerchief. She survived the war in the Soviet interior and afterwards immigrated to Israel.
Date: March 1940 - May 1940
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: The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Ginunski Family

Source Record ID: RN36-29
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 572
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CELEBRATIONS CEREMONIES/COMMEMORATIONS COMMUNISTS/COMMUNISM FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) MUSICIANS/INSTRUMENTS PEASANTS POLES TOWER OF FACES
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families G

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer

Record last modified:: 2002-10-03 00:00:00
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