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Members of the Lubetski family stand outside their house.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 40754

Members of the Lubetski family stand outside their house.

The two squares on the roof are the hinged rooftops that were opened for the holiday of Sukkot. The open space was covered with fresh branches (skhakh), and the room beneath became the sukkah.

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
 
Record last modified: 2002-11-19 00:00:00
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