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Group portrait of children in a T.O.Z. summer camp in the summer of 1940,

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75683
Group portrait of children in a T.O.Z. summer camp in the summer of 1940, Bella Preskovsky attended the. summer camp in Bialystok and was treated there as a "celebrity" from Palestine. Many of the children depicted in the photograph were deported from the Bialystok ghetto to Theresienstadt in 1943.

Group portrait of children in a T.O.Z. summer camp in the summer of 1940,

Bella Preskovsky attended the. summer camp in Bialystok and was treated there as a "celebrity" from Palestine. Many of the children depicted in the photograph were deported from the Bialystok ghetto to Theresienstadt in 1943.

Date
1940
Locale
Bialystok, [Bialystok] Poland
Variant Locale
Belostok
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Sports/Summer Camps
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bella Preskovsky

About This Photograph

Biography
Bella Preskowski is the daughter of Jacob Preskowski and Chana Tykocka Preskowski. Jacob was born in Pruzany and Chana was born in Grajewo. Both immigrated from Poland to Palestine. Bella was born in 1933, and her sister Lea was born in 1935. In the spring of 1939 Chana brought her two young daughters from Tel Aviv to Grajewo, Poland to visit her parents: Mordechai and Ryvka Tykocki. With the September 1939 German invasion of Poland and the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland Chana and her daughters were unable to leave. Jacob Preskovski was a Palestinian citizen and managed to obtain a "emergency certificate" for his wife and children to return home. They reached Palestine in the fall of 1940. All the relatives in Grajewo and Pruzany were murdered during the Holocaust.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Bella Preskovsky
Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.400.1
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-13 00:00:00
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