Group portrait of a Jewish partisan unit operating in the Lithuanian forests. Many of its members had been involved in resistance activities in the Kovno ghetto.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 70796

Overview

Caption: Group portrait of a Jewish partisan unit operating in the Lithuanian forests. Many of its members had been involved in resistance activities in the Kovno ghetto.

Pictured in the bottom row (from left to right) are Szymon Block and Mosze Szejman; second row: Michael Lefkowitz; Rivka Boruchowicz Tepper; David Tepper; Rivka Block; and Shlomo Brojer; third row: Yudel Edelman; Runia Schtrom; and Aaron Tabacznik; fourth row: Yankel Ratner; Ester Schtrom; Eliezer Zilberis; Liebe Zajac; Berl Sztern, and Itzhak Yuchnikov.
Date: Circa 1944
Locale: [Rudninkai Forest; Belarus] ?
Variant Locale: Rudnicki
Rudniki
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eliezer Zilberis

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Eliezer Zilberis
Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum)

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Source Record ID: 30292
Published Source: Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Little, Brown and Company - p. 202

Keyword: FORESTS GHETTO/OCCUPATION GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (LITHUANIAN) KOVNO RESISTERS/RESISTANCE WEAPONS/ARMS
Photo Designation: RESISTANCE & PARTISANS -- Poland/USSR -- Jewish Resistance: Partisan Units -- Lithuania