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Six members of the election commission of Haoved Hatzioni in Eisiskes assist in fundraising for the 20th World Zionist Congress.

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    Six members of the election commission of Haoved Hatzioni in Eisiskes assist in fundraising for the 20th World Zionist Congress.
    Six members of the election commission of Haoved Hatzioni in Eisiskes assist in fundraising for the 20th World Zionist Congress. (from right to left) Eli Politacki, Shuster, Shalom Kahn, Israel Szczuczynski, Szeina Blacharowicz, and Yankl Levin. They had hoped that the Congress would influence the British to open up Palestine for mass immigration. None of the six was able to obtain an immigration certificate to Palestine. Szeina survived the war in the forest; the others were murdered.

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    Six members of the election commission of Haoved Hatzioni in Eisiskes assist in fundraising for the 20th World Zionist Congress.

    (from right to left) Eli Politacki, Shuster, Shalom Kahn, Israel Szczuczynski, Szeina Blacharowicz, and Yankl Levin. They had hoped that the Congress would influence the British to open up Palestine for mass immigration. None of the six was able to obtain an immigration certificate to Palestine. Szeina survived the war in the forest; the others were murdered.
    Date
    1937
    Locale
    Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Eishyshok
    Eshishuk
    Eyshishkes
    Ejszyszki
    Eishishkes
    Lithuania
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

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    Photo Source
    The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Provenance: Wiszik Family
    Source Record ID: RN46-36
    Published Source
    There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 560
    Restriction
    NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

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    Artifact Photographer
    Arnold Kramer
    Record last modified:
    2002-10-03 00:00:00
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