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Nehemia "der Feldsher" Virshubski, the shtetl's folk doctor, poses with his daughter, Sonia.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 40494
Nehemia "der Feldsher" Virshubski, the shtetl's folk doctor, poses with his daughter, Sonia. Nehemia's favorite medical treatments were cupping (bankes) and enemas. At the end of World War I, he was shot by a Russian soldier. Sonia Saposnikov often accompanied her father on his house calls. She later became a prominent pharmacist in Vilna. Sonia and her family disappeared during the Holocaust; they most probably were killed in Ponar.

Nehemia "der Feldsher" Virshubski, the shtetl's folk doctor, poses with his daughter, Sonia.

Nehemia's favorite medical treatments were cupping (bankes) and enemas. At the end of World War I, he was shot by a Russian soldier. Sonia Saposnikov often accompanied her father on his house calls. She later became a prominent pharmacist in Vilna. Sonia and her family disappeared during the Holocaust; they most probably were killed in Ponar.

Photographer
Yitzhak Uri Katz
Date
1931
Locale
Eisiskes, [Nowogrodek] Poland
Variant Locale
Eishyshok
Eshishuk
Eyshishkes
Ejszyszki
Eishishkes
Lithuania
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families K
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 (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Provenance: Kagonowicz Family
Source Record ID: RN60-15
Published Source
There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 440
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-17 00:00:00
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