Liza Grochowska attends a sports camp in Mikuliczyn.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 34905

Date: 1937 July 03
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

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.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
JEWS (POLISH)
MACCABI
SPORTS/TEAMS/ATHLETES
SUMMER CAMPS
WOMEN
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Leah Gutman

Source Record ID: Collections: 2008.327
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