Newlyweds Esther and Yosef Resnik bid farewell to relatives and friends as thy embark on the first leg of their emigration to Colombia, South America.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39778

Overview

Caption: Newlyweds Esther and Yosef Resnik bid farewell to relatives and friends as thy embark on the first leg of their emigration to Colombia, South America.

Esther is pictured in the center in a white scarf. Yosef is wearing a bowler hat. Standing next to Yosef are Esther's family: her brother David, mother Alte, sisters Shoshana and Zipporah, holding her baby daughter Yaffa. Esther is standing next to her best friend Szeina Blacharowitz and brother-in-law Moshe Sonenson, with his son Yitzhak. Yankele Krisilov, the bus driver, is placing their luggage on top of the roof.

Most of the people in the photo were murdered in the 1941 massacre, the Radun ghetto or by the Polish Home Army. Only Yankele Krisilov, Szeina Blacharowicz, Moshe Sonenson and his two children survived the Holocaust.
Date: 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

Photo Source: The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Wiszik Family

Source Record ID: RN46-16
Published Source: There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 307
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keyword: BLACHAROWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) BUSES CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH DEPARTURES EMIGRES/EMIGRATION/AID (PREWAR/WARTIME) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) KATZ FAMILY (EISISKES) KRISILOV FAMILY (EISISKES) RESNIK FAMILY (EISISKES) SONENSON FAMILY (EISISKES) TOWER OF FACES WOMEN YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families W