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

Photograph | 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.

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 Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families G
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: 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
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-03 00:00:00
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