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Israel Jung of the Bialystok ghetto, who perished in the Majdanek camp.

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Halinka - Rachel Jung, the daughter of Israel Jung of the Bialystok ghetto, who perished in the Majdanek camp.

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Natan Goldsztein, a member of the underground in Bialystok and a partisan in Belorussia.

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Bronka Winicka - Klibanski, a member of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok ghetto.

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Mordechai Tenenbaum - Tamaroff, member of the Dror youth movement and the Jewish Fighting Organization in Warsaw and Bialystok

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Rabbi Fajans of the Bialystok ghetto.

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Zvi Mersik, member of He - Chaluts ha - Tsa'ir and Dror and the Jewish underground of the Bialystok ghetto

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Edek - Eliyahu Boraks, member of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok ghetto.

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Bronka Winicka - Klibanski, a member of the underground in the Bialystok ghetto, a liaison - courier and partisan in Belorussia.

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Date 1938
City Bialystok
Photographer Vishniac, Roman
Description A stocking knitter, an elderly man and a boy pose looking into the window of his workshop.

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Date pub. Nov. 30, 1924
City Bialystok

left; Rivke Shefler, wife of Eliezer right; Eliezer Szefer, 92 years old

 

 

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Date pub. Nov. 23, 1930
City Bialystok

Description Miss Rokhl Gordon

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Miss Lusia Levinsky of Bialystok published 1931

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Miss Ethel Berkovitsh of Bialystok

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Date pub. April 8, 1923
City Bialystok

Description ("Jewish Daily Forward" Yiddish caption) "Rabbi Peysakh Eliakh -- all Bialystokers know him. He has been deciding `shayles' [questions regarding ritual purity] for 50 years."

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Date pub. April 8, 1923
City Bialystok

Description ("Jewish Daily Forward" Yiddish caption) "Hersh Ayzik -- Rabbi Peysakh Eliakh's brother -- with his wife and daughter

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Date pub. May 6, 1923
City Bialystok

Description Studio portrait of Shmuel Knyszynski, 84 years old, and his wife Lifshe, "a well-known couple in Bialystok."

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Date pub. May 13, 1923
City Bialystok

Description ("Jewish Daily Forward" Yiddish caption) "Yisroel Lipski, a well-known teacher in Bialystok for the last 55 years

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Date pub. Oct. 7, 1923
City Bialystok

Description Portrait study of Herts Pines (Herts, son of Pine), the old 'shoykhet' (ritual slaughterer).

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Portrait study of a young Jew branded as a boy (in 1906) with mustache, beard and the word 'thief' in three languages by a Polish doctor who caught him picking an apple from his tree. Jewish leaders who protested were expelled from the city for 2 years.

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Date pub. May 13, 1934
City Bialystok

Description This picture was submitted by one of the girls who is now Mrs. Moss of Patterson N. J." (Part of a "Jewish Daily Forward" photo spread, 1934

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