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Members of a Hehalutz Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana on a horse-drawn cart.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 40794
Members of a Hehalutz Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana on a horse-drawn cart. Sara Plotnik is standing on the side of the cart and Yehiel Blacharowicz is in the back at the far left. Sara and Yehiel were from Eisiskes. Yehiel did not receive an immigration certificate to Palestine and was murdered in the September 1941 massacre. The fate of the others is unknown.

Members of a Hehalutz Zionist hachshara in Oszmiana on a horse-drawn cart.

Sara Plotnik is standing on the side of the cart and Yehiel Blacharowicz is in the back at the far left. Sara and Yehiel were from Eisiskes. Yehiel did not receive an immigration certificate to Palestine and was murdered in the September 1941 massacre. The fate of the others is unknown.

Date
1941
Locale
Oszmiana, [Belarus; Molodechno] Poland
Variant Locale
Oshmyany
Belarus
Asmena
Oschmjany
Ozmiana
Oczmiana
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST: Yaffa Eliach Collection -- Families A
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Shtetl Foundation

About This Photograph

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.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Arnold Kramer

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
The Shtetl Foundation
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Provenance: Avrahami Family
Source Record ID: RN72-29
Restriction
NOT FOR RELEASE without the permission of the The Shtetl Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2004-11-29 00:00:00
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