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Group portrait of the Palestinian women's basketball team.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 34901
Group portrait of the Palestinian women's basketball team. Leah Grochowska is standing second from the right.

Group portrait of the Palestinian women's basketball team.

Leah Grochowska is standing second from the right.

Date
1944
Locale
Palestine/Israel
Variant Locale
Israel
Photo Designation
JEWISH LIFE IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL -- Daily Life/Economic Life/Families
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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