Faculty and students gather in front of the Hebrew School, Beit Sefer Klali Ivri.
Overview
- Caption
- Faculty and students gather in front of the Hebrew School, Beit Sefer Klali Ivri.
Principal, Moshe Yaakov Botwinik (fifth row, center); four faculty members are in the fourth row, right to left: Shaul Schneider, Malka Levittan Gayer, A. Shainberg, and (first name unknown) Okun.
Only seven students in the photo survived the Holocaust: Hayya Shlanski (second row, eight from left) immigrated to America, and six boys survived as partisans: Reuven Paikowski (fourth row, second from right, with arms crossed); Layzer Ballon (to the right of teacher Okun); Leibke Kaganowicz (second boy to the right of Botwinik); Avremele Botwininik (second to the last row, far right); Leibke Pochter (same row, eleventh from right);and Israel Shmerkowitch (top row, far right). Principal Botwinik was murdered in the Radun ghetto on May 10, 1942. - Photographer
- Alte Katz
- Date
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1936 May 31
- 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: Shlanski FamilySource Record ID: RN64-135 - Published Source
- There Once Was a World - Eliach, Yaffa - Little, Brown - p. 474
- Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BALLON FAMILY (EISISKES) BOTWINIK FAMILY (EISISKES) CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) KAGANOWICZ FAMILY (EISISKES) LEVITAN FAMILY (EISISKES) PAIKOWSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) POCHTER FAMILY (EISISKES) SCHNEIDER FAMILY (EISISKES) SCHOOLS/TEACHERS/CLASSES SHLANSKI FAMILY (EISISKES) TOWER OF FACES WOMEN
- Photo Designation
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LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families S
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Biography
- The Shlanski brothers were among the more than 1,500 Jews from Eisiskes who immigrated to the United States between 1873 and 1940. They were the children of Avraham-Mordekhai Shlanski, a coachman from Vilna, and his wife Zisle. Morris Shlanski was the first to come, arriving in the United States in 1905. He later became a physician. His younger brother Louis joined him shortly before the start of World War I. The Eisiskes émigré community contributed large sums of money to Jewish institutions in their hometown, and Morris and Louis returned briefly to Eisiskes in 1936 to visit their relatives and deliver a large donation to the community. In 1938, Zelig Shlanski followed his brothers to America accompanied by his oldest son Fischl. He was joined two years later by his wife, Rose (Dugaczanski) Shlanski, and their four younger children, Benjamin, Hayya, Sara and Leibl. As the family of an American citizen, they received permission to pass through Nazi Germany while en route to their ship in Italy. One of Zelig's sisters of Zelig and her family also had planned to immigrate but were unable to get out before the Germans occupied Eisiskes in June 1941. Avraham-Mordekhai Shlanski died of natural causes before the war. Benjamin Shlanski enlisted in the American army after immigrating to the United States. He was killed in action on Anzio Beach, Italy on May 29,1944. Most of the extended family who remained in Eisiskes perished in the September 1941 mass killing action.
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- 2004-05-18 00:00:00
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