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Portrait of three Jewish teenagers in a sports camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 34896
Portrait of three Jewish teenagers in a sports camp. Liza Grochowska is standing on the left.

Portrait of three Jewish teenagers in a sports camp.

Liza Grochowska is standing on the left.

Date
1937
Locale
Mikuliczyn, Poland
Variant Locale
Mykulychyn, [Ukraine]
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Sports/Summer Camps
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leah Gutman

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Biography
Leah Gutman (born Liza Grochowska) grew up in Bialystok, Poland. She was active in Maccabi and participated in basketball and, track and field events both in Bialystok and Palestine where she immigrated in December 1939. Her brother had previously immigrated four years earlier. In 1947 she immigrated to the United States. However, Liza's parents, Joseph (b. 1893) and Lova (nee Yevnin, b. 1895) and her sister Chaya (b. 1921) all perished in the Holocaust in 1943.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Leah Gutman
Source Record ID: Collections: 2008.327
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-28 00:00:00
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