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Nechama Schmidt and Efraim Tykocka pose by the entrance to a wooden building.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75687
Nechama Schmidt and Efraim Tykocka pose by the entrance to a wooden building.

Nechama Schmidt and Efraim Tykocka pose by the entrance to a wooden building.

Date
May 1936
Locale
Grajewo, [Bialystok] Poland
Variant Locale
Grayevo
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bella Preskovsky

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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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