Vileyka Portraits Part 2

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#vilp-42:Hershel Kagan of Vileyka son of Avrum and Rikla nee Zavodnik and his family in Moscow 1924.

#vilp-43:Boruch Kagan (Ben Cohen) and Vileika friend Max Tobias in 1913. Courtesy of his daughter; Beatrice Markel, Redondo Beach, California

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#vilp-45: Izak Laks, a middle class young man. 1924.

#vilp-46: Portrait study of the old 'shames' (caretaker of the synagogue) leaning on a wooden 'shtender' (prayer stand), smoking a cigarette. May 1931. Photographer: Kacyzne, Alter

#vilp-47: Sore and her sisters - a baker's daughters.October 1926. Photographer: Kacyzne, Alter

#vilp-48: Portrait study of a saddler at work. December 1926. Photographer: Kacyzne, Alter

#vilp-49: Two brothers. They are both 'shmidn' [blacksmiths] and 'frume yidn' [pious Jews]. December 1926. Photographer: Kacyzne, Alter

#vilp-50: Portrait study of Moyshe Norman. April 1936.

#vilp-51:Portrait study by a window. A young Jewish man. January 1927. Photographer: Kacyzne, Alter

#vilp-52: Sore Kugl, the baker, behind the bakery counter. January 1928.Photographer: Kacyzne, Alter

#vilp-53: Studio portrait of young men and boys, revolutionary youths of Vileyka. 1903.

#vilp-54: Studio portrait of Dr. Elias Sedlis, medical doctor and captain in the Tsarist army. 1915,

#vilp-55: Studio portrait of the board of directors on the tenth anniversary of the founding of the `Gimles khesed' (Free Loan Society). 1939. photographer: Berman, B.

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Israel Isaac Grejcer and nephew ( Retchki, Kurenitz or
Vileika

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Sarah (nee Grejcer) and Mr. Kugel (probably Retchki, Kurenitz or
Vileika).
Credit; Gene Richards

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Sarah Kugel (nee Grejcer - probably Retchki, Kurenitz or Vileika).
Credit; Gene Richards

#vilp-59: The memoirs of Jakov Szafran.
The memoirs of Jakov Szafran, 1919 - 1987, of Warsaw, and his biography by his wife Chana. At the outbreak of World War II he reached eastern Poland, resided in Lutsk and was arrested by the Russians. He escaped from a moving train and reached Baranowice where he worked as an electrician until 1941. With the occupation of the area by the Germans Jakov was transferred to the Baranowice ghetto and in 1942 he was sent to a labor camp of the "Todt Organization" in Vileyka along with another 450 young Jews and worked at laying railway tracks. In this camp he organized an underground cell and made contact with partisans outside the camp. An escape attempt by the prisoners failed due to an informer, and most of them were murdered. Approximately 10 of them reached the forests. Jakov Szafran fled from the camp under a hail of bullets and succeeding in reaching the forests, but the partisans he met refused to accept Jews without weapons. In order to obrain a weapon Jakov and a small number of Jews participated in an attack on a German factory and at the end of the year he joined a partisan group commanded by Markov. He was outstanding in the battles against the Germans and was awarded a "Red Star" first class, for valor and adhering to purpose.

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Chaim Giladi

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Chaim Giladi

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