Maccabi certificate issued to Liza Grochowska.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 34911

Date: 1935 June 09
Variant Locale: Belostok
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: CERTIFICATES/DIPLOMAS
DOCUMENTS
MACCABI
SPORTS/TEAMS/ATHLETES
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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