Overview
- Caption
- Five young Jewish men who are members of a kibbutz hachshara (Zionist collective) pose holding tools at a logging company in Oczmiana, where they are working to learn the trade and finance their collective.
Among those pictured is Yehiel Blacharowicz (left) from Eisiskes. He was killed by the Germans during the September 1941 mass shooting action in Eisiskes. - Date
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Before 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
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The Shtetl Foundation (Yad Vashem Photo and Film Archives)
Copyright: Agency AgreementProvenance: Avrahami FamilySource Record ID: RN72-25 - Restriction
- NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
Keywords & Subjects
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.
- Record last modified:
- 2001-09-21 00:00:00
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