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Portrait of Chaya Growoska and a friend in Bialystok.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 34897
Portrait of Chaya Growoska and a friend in Bialystok. The photo is inscribed to the donor from her sister. Chaya later perished in the Holocaust.

Portrait of Chaya Growoska and a friend in Bialystok.

The photo is inscribed to the donor from her sister. Chaya later perished in the Holocaust.

Date
1939 May 21
Locale
Bialystok, [Bialystok] Poland
Variant Locale
Belostok
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leah Gutman

About This Photograph

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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