Overview
- Caption
- Nehama Paikowski (right) and her friend, Freeda Yurkanski pose together in winter coats and muffs.
On September 26, 1941, horse-drawn carriages stopped in front of the hospital and took the sick, and mothers who had just given birth and their new-born infants to the mass graves to be killed. Nehama was among the patients who was taken from the hospital to the killing fields. Freeda was also murdered on that day. - Date
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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
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The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Paikowski FamilySource Record ID: RN52-84 - Published Source
- There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 592
- Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Record last modified:
- 2004-05-18 00:00:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1126120