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Members of a hachshara in Pinsk.

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    Members of a hachshara in Pinsk.
    Members of a hachshara in Pinsk. Gershon Rochowski is in the front row, second from the right. He immigrated to Palestine in May 1934. Flora Kagan is in the third row, third person from the right.

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    Members of a hachshara in Pinsk.

    Gershon Rochowski is in the front row, second from the right. He immigrated to Palestine in May 1934. Flora Kagan is in the third row, third person from the right.
    Date
    May 1934
    Locale
    Pinsk, [Belarus; Pinsk] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Belarus
    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: Rochowski Family
    Source Record ID: RN55-4
    Restriction
    NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

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    Administrative Notes

    Artifact Photographer
    Arnold Kramer
    Biography
    Feige (Flora) Kagan was born in Mazeikiai, Lithuania December 5, 1914. She considered Letzkava Lithuania her home town, living there until 1934 when she moved to Kovno. She was very active in the Zioinist movement and had planned to immigrate to Israel, however she meet Bernard Stern from Taurage, Lithuania who was a pharmacist and she decided to marry him and stay in Lithuania.

    In 1939, a son, Benzion Stern, was born. They were detained in the Kovno Ghetto beginning August , 1941. Feige's young son, Benzion, was murdered during the Children's Action in March, 1944. She was deported to Stutthof on July 1944. Her prisoner number was #44165. Feige was liberated by the Russian Army and returned to Lithuania to look for her family. Her husband, Bernard Stern, was liberated from Dachau in May 1945. They were reunited in Lodz, Poland. A daughter, Marlene Stern, was born on January 27, 1947 in Munich Germany. Bernard was the chief pharmacist in the Landsberg DP camp. The family immigrated to the United States in May 1949.
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