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Members of the Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana relax by a riverbed.

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    Members of the Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana relax by a riverbed.
    Members of the Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana relax by a riverbed. 

Those pictured include Sara Plotnik Avrahami (with eye glasses) and Yehiel Blacharowicz on the extreme left were from Eisiskes.  Yehiel did not receive an immigration certificate to Palestine and was murdered in the September 1941 massacre.

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    Members of the Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana relax by a riverbed.

    Those pictured include Sara Plotnik Avrahami (with eye glasses) and Yehiel Blacharowicz on the extreme left were from Eisiskes. Yehiel did not receive an immigration certificate to Palestine and was murdered in the September 1941 massacre.
    Date
    1941
    Locale
    Oszmiana, [Belarus; Molodechno] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Oshmyany
    Belarus
    Asmena
    Oschmjany
    Ozmiana
    Oczmiana
    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: Avrahami Family
    Source Record ID: RN72-14
    Restriction
    NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation

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    Administrative Notes

    Artifact Photographer
    Arnold Kramer
    Biography
    Sara Avrahami (born Sara Plotnik) is the daughter of Eliyahu Plotnik She had twin sisters, Breine and Mikhele. Sara studied nursing in Vilna and joined a Hehalutz hachshara, "Shaharia" in Oszmiana to prepare for immigration to Palestine. In 1938 she married another member of the hachshara, Pesach Abrahamson (later Avrahami), and they immigrated to Palestine shortly thereafter. Sara's father, sisters and most of her friends from Hehalutz were killed during the September 1941 massacre.
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    2004-11-29 00:00:00
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