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Nehama Paikowski (right) and her friend, Freeda Yurkanski pose together in winter coats and muffs.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 40378
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.

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
1941
Locale
Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale
Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families P
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: Paikowski Family
Source 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
 
Record last modified: 2004-05-18 00:00:00
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