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

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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.

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Caption: 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 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: 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

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) JEWS (POLISH) MEDICAL CARE/NURSES/MEDICS STUDIO PORTRAITS TOWER OF FACES VIRSHUBSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) WOMEN
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families K

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Arnold Kramer

Record last modified:: 2003-10-17 00:00:00
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