Overview
- Caption
- Members of the Warsaw Maccabi swim team at a practice. This is the last photograph of the team prior to the start of World War II and the Holocaust.
Pictured standing from left are Zygmund Kupferstein (the coach), Samek Tytelman, Abram Suchowolski and Kazik Zybert. Seated are Heniek Kulik and Dadek Einhorn. - Date
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1939
- Locale
- [Warsaw] Poland
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rachel Tytelman Wygodzki
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Rachel Tytelman Wygodzki
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Samek (Shmuel Aharon)Tytelman is the brother of the donor Rachel Tytelman (later Wygodzki). He was born in Warsaw on July 10, 1921. He swam crawl for Maccabi Warsaw and participated in a major competition in Lvov less than a month before the German occupation of Poland in which he won second prize. Samek gave his sister the photograph when she saw him for the last time in May 1940. Samek was shot and killed in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 while climbing on the ghetto wall.
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- 2008-11-03 00:00:00
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