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Group portrait of Polish Jewish refugees in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

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    Group portrait of Polish Jewish refugees in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
    Group portrait of Polish Jewish refugees in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Among those pictured is Peretz Miransky (top row, third from the right).

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    Group portrait of Polish Jewish refugees in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

    Among those pictured is Peretz Miransky (top row, third from the right).
    Date
    1943
    Locale
    Samarkand, [Uzbekistan] USSR
    Variant Locale
    Uzbekistan
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anne Miransky

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Anne Miransky

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    Biography
    Peretz Miransky was the son of Avrom and Chana Miransky. He was born on March 24, 1908 in Vilna, where his parents were innkeepers. He had six siblings, Etta (later Michtom), Itzchak, Bassia, Rashke, Itke and Masha. Peretz was a member of the Young Vilna circle of Yiddish writers and artists that included Abraham Sutzkever, Shmerke Katcheginski, and Benche Michtom. In 1940 Peretz was deported to the Soviet interior and conscripted into various work brigades. From 1941 to 1945 he lived in Samarkand. There, he married Leah Bluds in 1943. In 1946 Peretz returned to Vilna. But two weeks later he continued on to Berlin, where he stayed for the next two years. In October 1948 he immigrated to the United States by way of France on board the SS Radnik. Peretz' parents died before the war; all but one of his siblings (Etta) perished in the Holocaust.
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