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Wedding guests gather for a group portrait in front of the house of Leibke Levin.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 39788

Wedding guests gather for a group portrait in front of the house of Leibke Levin.

Standing at the far right is Moshe Yaakov Botwinik, the principal of the Hebrew School and his wife. Szeine Blacharowicz is standing in the back at the far left. Moshe Yaakov Botwinik and his wife were murdered in the Radun ghetto. Most of the people in the photo were murdered by the Germans in the September 1941 mass killing action. Szeine Blacharowicz survived the Holocaust in hiding in the forest.

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Caption: Wedding guests gather for a group portrait in front of the house of Leibke Levin.

Standing at the far right is Moshe Yaakov Botwinik, the principal of the Hebrew School and his wife. Szeine Blacharowicz is standing in the back at the far left. Moshe Yaakov Botwinik and his wife were murdered in the Radun ghetto. Most of the people in the photo were murdered by the Germans in the September 1941 mass killing action. Szeine Blacharowicz survived the Holocaust in hiding in the forest.
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

Rights & Restrictions

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

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Wiszik Family

Source Record ID: RN46-27
Restriction: NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: BLACHAROWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) BOTWINIK FAMILY (EISISKES) FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) TOWER OF FACES WEDDINGS
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families W

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer

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