Overview
- Caption
- 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
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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: RN72-29 - 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.
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- 2004-11-29 00:00:00
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