Group portrait of young Bundists in Vilna.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of young Bundists in Vilna.
The original caption reads, "taken before Leike Zafron went away." Among those pictured is Etta (Miransky) Michtom (second row from the top, third from the right). - Date
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1927
- Locale
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Variant Locale
- Lithuania
Wilno
Wilna
Vilna - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anne Miransky
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Anne Miransky
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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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- 2004-01-12 00:00:00
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