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Members of the Rosenbaum family of Minsk with German Jewish soldiers during the German occupation of Minsk in the First World War

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Socialist Zionist group in Minsk in 1924: 2. Matalia Taif 3. Chana Gurevitz 4. Emma Katz Yavne 5. Zvi Botvinik 6. Yizhak Mendel Zibrin
8. Sarah Barishenski 9. Zertov 10. Yocha Pinchasik

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meeting of Zeirei Zion of Belarus in Minsk in 1919 (many named in the Hebrew caption)

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Members of Kadima in Minsk in 1921 ( almost all shown are named in the Hebrew caption

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Koidnov Street in Minsk

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The Sosemsky family of Minsk- the family came to Eretz Israel and lived for awhile in Moshav Bitzaron.

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Hashomer Hazair left in 1925 top from left; Melik Sosensky, Eli Cohen, Zvi Even Shoshan, Moshe Borovik,
bottom: Zalman Cohen, Y. Perlov, Shalom Yadin, Shaul Rabinovitz, Yosef Volokovitz, Gavriel Shapiro.

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A play "sheep's well" by the Spanish dramatist Lope De Vega directed by M. Rafaelski presented in the Jewish theater in Minsk

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The wall of the last synagogue in Minsk ( Soviet times) before it was demolished

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leaders of the resistance in Ghetto Minsk; Hersh Smolar, Shalom Zorin, Boris Chaymovitz
Standing from right; Nachum Feldman, Vlodia Krabezinski, Chaim Feyglman

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Masha Broskin was a Jewish partisan, member of the resistance in Minsk. She was hung by the Nazis.

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The huge Victory parade of the partisans of the Vilna/ Minsk area. It took place in July of 1944.

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A 70th birthday party for former partisan leader Shalom Zorin (sitting 3rd from the left) at his home in Minsk. Most of the guests were members of the resistance in the Minsk area.

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Hersh Smolar and Dr. Dora Alperovits on a street in the Minsk ghetto.

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The wedding party for resistance member: Rachel Davidson and Zelig Shmuelovitz, Minsk 1956.

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Heinrich Himmler, the SS commander, touring the Minsk ghetto. One of the Jews on the other side of the ghetto fence has a circle on his chest. In this ghetto there was no Star of David but rather a yellow cloth circle, 10 cm. in diameter. Photographed in 1942. The Minsk ghetto had a section populated by Jews from Hamburg. At a certain stage the ghetto had no street signs, only numbers on the buildings. The ghetto's Jews, both locals and German immigrants, were required to wear a patch with their house number beneath the yellow circle. This decree was in force beginning in June - July 1942.

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This photo was most likely taken in Minsk. I have no idea of the timeline or who these young ladies are. If anyone out there can help me please contact me.Sarah Greenberg sacredsisters3@aol.com

#minsk-18:

Two partisans and three underground members who came from the Minsk ghetto. In the photo: Chasya Proslina (on the left), Vladimir Shatzman (on the right), and Bela Proslina (second from the right).
Photographed in 1947.

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Members of Ha - Tehiyyah, a Zionist youth movement in Minsk. Photographed in December 1925, prior to the emigration to Palestine of Shlomo Even Shoshan (seated, fourth from the left). Also in the photo:
Yehuda Rabinovich (standing, on the left) and Eliahu Kagan (standing, second from the right). Kagan later became a writer. He fell in WWII, in 1944.

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A camp for Soviet POWs on Shirukuja Street in Minsk. This was initially a camp for Jews, and later became the principal camp for POWs in Minsk (in the Soviet army barracks). POWs were brought here,
as well as 300 Jews who worked at clearing the ruins of the ghetto. The place included a punishment camp for Jews charged wtih looting (according to antisemitic propaganda). In this camp were Jewish POWs
from the Soviet Red Army, including Aleksandr Pechersky, (subsequently transferred to the Sobibor camp) and others who were transferred to various camps. Four partisan commanders were smuggled out of the camp: Semyon Gozanko (a Russian, commander of a Jewish partisan unit, the Budionny Battalion) , Tamarkin, Zacher Boyko and Tatiana Boyko.

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Members of Ha - Tehiyyah, a Zionist youth movement in Minsk. Photographed in August 1925, prior to the emigration to Palestine of movement member Shalom Milechnikov - Yadin (seated, center). Also in the photo: Shlomo Even Shoshan (standing, second from the left).

#minsk-22:

This photograph shows my maternal grandfather, Meyer Cohen, lower right, with his siblings. It was taken in Minsk around the turn of the twentieth century. Chaika Cohen, my great aunt,and leader of Paoale Zion Minsk, is upper right. The other man may have been named Julius or Yudel Cohen or Kagan. The other woman may have been named Miriam Revekka or Rivka Cohen/Kagan. My grandfather Meyer immigrated to New York as did his sister Chaika, who married M.Y. Shelubsky, a Yiddish writer and publisher. I am trying to learn what happened to Yudel and Miriam. Does anybody recognize these people or their names?

Miriam Camitta mpcamitta@aol.com

#minsk-23:

This photo shows my maternal grandmother, Rachel BASSEIN COHEN, seated, bottom left, with unknown people some of whom may be her cousins, or members of Paoale Zion Minsk. The photo was probably taken in Minsk around the turn of the twentieth century. Do you recognize any of these individuals?

Miriam Camitta mpcamitta@aol.com

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Do you recognize the man on the left? he must be GORDIN (or GORDON ).
The photo was taken while he was visiting his relatives in Minsk and
Mocow in the sixties or early seventies. Next to him is his Cousin Lev
Engels (my Grandfather) and on the right is his Cousin Sara Engels.

Gregory Engels

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The Great Synagogue of Minsk

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A notice on the establishment of the ghetto in Minsk

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Rosa Grinstein, a baby who perished in the Minsk ghetto on March 2, 1942.

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Nina Lis, a member of the Jewish underground in the Minsk ghetto.

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Mordechai Proslin, a member of the Jewish underground in the Minsk ghetto.

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A marketplace in Minsk during the period of the First World War

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Jewish water carrier in Minsk before the war

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the First World War- Members of the Rosenbaum family of Minsk

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Jewish children and teens in a nature club in Minsk, celebrating the holiday of Lag B'Omer (late April 1918)

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club in Minsk, celebrating the holiday of Lag B'Omer (late April 1918)

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A convention of Jewish Russian army soldiers with Zionist aspirations

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Bela Grinsztejn - Szuster of Minsk, a Jewish partisan in Belorussia.

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A memorial monument in Minsk for 5,000 Jews massacred on Purim, March 2, 1942

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Burning The Nazis burning buildings in Minsk during the war

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Members of the Holocaust survivor community from Krosno, photographed on the 15th anniversary of the killing

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Members of a pioneering training group (hachshara) of the He - Chaluts movement in Minsk, working in the Trud tinsmithy

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members of the resistance in the Minsk Ghetto who were able to escape to the forests.

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A residential building in the area of the Minsk ghetto, that was refurbished and preserved by the municipality

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A residential building in the area of the Minsk ghetto, that was refurbished and preserved by the municipality

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A pair of stone pillars, a memorial monument to the Jews of Hamburg and Duesseldorf, Germany, who were deported to the Minsk ghetto

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Partisans from the Minsk ghetto

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Avraham Levit - Arluk, a former partisan, visiting an exhibit in Minsk commemorating partisan activities

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resistance fighters from the Minsk ghetto

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the Minsk ghetto

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Ruins of the entrance gate to the Jewish cemetery on Sochaya Street in Minsk, USSR.

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Smashed gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Minsk, USSR.

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Sara Grinstein, a partisan in Belorussia.

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Shmuel David Grinstein, who perished in Minsk on October 17, 1941.

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A memorial monument in Minsk for 5,000 Jews massacred on Purim, March 2, 1942

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Chaim - Efim Presman, a Jewish member of the underground in the Minsk ghetto and a partisan in Belorussia.

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Members of Ha - Tehiyyah, a Zionist youth movement in Minsk.

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monument in Minsk for 5,000 Jews massacred on Purim, March 2, 1942

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The place in the Minsk ghetto where Jews were executed, and also where those who died in the ghetto were buried

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Chaim - Efim Presman, a Jewish member of the underground in the Minsk ghetto and a partisan in Belorussia.

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Yuri Ilich Taytz, an athletics instructure in a home for Jewish children in Minsk.

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Former partisans from Belorussia, gathered for a reunion held in Minsk in 1985.

#minsk-71:

Pictured; My great grandmother Ita Basha Melcher of Volozhin. She
married Yanya Solladuha/Jakob Lasell/Jacob LaSalle (born March 18,
1867 in Ashmany, Russia) She died between 1898 and 1909 in Minsk.
Pictured here with children: Rose and Samuel.
In 1909 my grandmother Rasche/Rose LaSalle and her brother
Schmul/Samuel Lasalle were accompanied by Nordiech Lipschiz and
brought to Cleveland, Ohio via Baltimore, Maryland via Bremen via
Krosnoje. Sam states on his citizenship papers that he was born 1896
in Volozhin, Russia which isn't far from Minsk. Cindy Glass Peaslee

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Back of picture of my great grandmother Ita Basha Melcher of
Volozhin. She married Yanya Solladuha/Jakob Lasell/Jacob LaSalle (born
March 18, 1867 in Ashmany, Russia) She died between 1898 and 1909 in
Minsk. Pictured here with children: Rose and Samuel.
Cindy Glass Peaslee

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Pictured; My great grandmother Ita Basha Melcher of Volozhin. She
married Yanya Solladuha/Jakob Lasell/Jacob LaSalle (born March 18,
1867 in Ashmany, Russia) She died between 1898 and 1909 in Minsk.
Pictured here with children: Rose and Samuel.
In 1909 my grandmother Rasche/Rose LaSalle and her brother
Schmul/Samuel Lasalle were accompanied by Nordiech Lipschiz and
brought to Cleveland, Ohio via Baltimore, Maryland via Bremen via
Krosnoje. Sam states on his citizenship papers that he was born 1896
in Volozhin, Russia which isn't far from Minsk. Cindy Glass Peaslee

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Back of picture of my great grandmother Ita Basha Melcher of
Volozhin. She married Yanya Solladuha/Jakob Lasell/Jacob LaSalle (born
March 18, 1867 in Ashmany, Russia) She died between 1898 and 1909 in
Minsk. Pictured here with children: Rose and Samuel.
Cindy Glass Peaslee

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Moishe Melcher of Volozhin/Minsk. His daughter Ita Basha Melcher
married Yanya Solladuha/Jakob Lasell/Jacob LaSalle (born March 18,
1867 in Ashmany, Russia) died between 1898 and 1909 in Minsk.
Submitted by the great great granddaughter of Moishe and Mary Melcher;
Cindy Glass Peaslee

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Moishe Melcher with children Samuel and Rose ( he had 6 children).
Samuel states on his citizenship papers that he was born 1896 in
Volozhin.
Submitted by the great great granddaughter of Moishe and Mary Melcher
; Cindy Glass Peaslee

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Avraham & Shlomo Even Shoshan

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Postcard sent by Hirsh- .Hirsh - Yoseph Taibel - a soldier in the Russian army

Submitted by grandson Reuven Taibel

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Postcard sent by Hirsh- Yoseph Taibel from Minsk in March 1916 his wife Tsipa-Chava in Kovno

Submitted by grandson Reuven Taibel

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Children of Taibel family from Kovno - refugees in the first world war in South Russia ~ 1916.

From left to right: Libbe-Esther, Leib (Arie), Mere (Mirjam), Don (Daniel),and Ida

Submitted by Leib's son - Reuven Taibel

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German troops in Minsk August 1941

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Minsk 1930 the Kopelovitz family

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Choral Synagogue in Minsk, built in 1906 – Used today as a State theatre (Photo was taken in the 1930’s)
https://jhrgbelarus.wordpress.com/

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1922 Minsk – Shoemaker course for Jewish boys financed by JOINT  https://jhrgbelarus.wordpress.com/

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Mikhail Gebelev, Head of Resistance

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Members of the Bund on a picnic, Minsk, 1910. (YIVO)

#minsk-94:

Shmariahu Zuperman was born in Minsk, Belorussia (USSR) in 1874 to Dvora. He was a builder and married to Nechama. Prior to WWII he lived in Minsk, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in Minsk, Belorussia (USSR).

Shmariahu was murdered in the Shoah.

This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by his granddaughters ?, Doris Diskin, Nata Andinysh

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My GG grandfather - Yankel Shulkin with his daughter .He was born about 1870 in Minsk. He was a tailor. His father Leib Shulkin was born bout 1850(?) in Minsk (?). He was a rabbi in Minsk synagogue. His son, 
(My great grandfather) was Izrail Chaim Shulkin, was born in 1899 in Minsk a cousin of my grandfather - Leon Shulkin - born in 1923, is a Holocaust survivor living in Melbourne..
Dima Shulkin

#minsk-96:

This photo shows my maternal grandmother, Rachel BASSEIN COHEN, seated, bottom left, with unknown people some of whom may be her cousins, or members of Paoale Zion Minsk. The photo was probably taken in Minsk around the turn of the twentieth century. Do you recognize any of these individuals?

Miriam Camitta