Vilna, Poland, Salamon Romer, Prewar.

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Vilna, Poland, Prewar, A collection of family portraits and sports clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Gordon Gnest with her sister and a friend, Prewar.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Bucharest, Romania, A man and woman, 15/09/1928.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Shepsel Prushan and other men working in construction.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Salamon Romer, Prewar.

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: The Estonian History Museum, Tallin

: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Abram Chukernik, Prewar.

The Klooga camp, set up in 1943, was the largest labor camp in Estonia. On 19/09/1944, a few days before the Soviet army liberated the camp, the Germans and their Estonian collaborators murdered more than 2000 Jews in nearby forests. They tried to cover up the mass killing but did not have time to burn most of the bodies. When the Soviet soldiers reached the camp on 28/09/1944, they found the bodies and in their pockets photographs and personal documents. Most of the (prewar) photographs show friends and relatives of the prisoners and attest to a world that was lost with the Nazi conquest. From...

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, 1929, Shepsel Prusan with the "Maccabi Stella" soccer team.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Abram Chukernik (squatting in the first row on the left) at a ski site, Prewar.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, A crowd in a street, apparently during a funeral, Prewar.

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: Yad Vashem

: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna (?), Poland, Jirdlowkiev, Izak Sulkind, Ch. Machtinger.

The photograph was found in the pocket of a person murdered at the Klooga camp. See also: 4068/81.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Abram Chukernik with young people at a party, Prewar.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, A crowd in a street, apparently during a funeral, Prewar.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland. Shabtai Shepsel Prushan (sitting second on the right) with other factory workers, before the war.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Israel Zipuk in a snow-filled street.

Born 1929. The photograph was found in the pocket of a person murdered at the Klooga camp on 19/09/1944. See also: 4068/86 and 4068/87.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Szulkin and M. Bejlinson ice skating, 1938.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Shepsel (Shabtai) Bliacher and other young men singing, Wilno, Poland (Today Vilnius, Lithuania)

The photograph was found in the pocket of a murder victim in the Klooga Camp. See also: 4068/50, 51. On 19/09/1944, a few days before the Soviet army liberated the camp, the Germans and their Estonian collaborators murdered more than 2000 Jews in nearby forests. They tried to cover up the mass killing but did not have time to burn most of the bodies. When the Soviet soldiers reached the camp on 28/09/1944, they found the bodies and in their pockets photographs and personal documents. Most of the (prewar) photographs show friends and relatives of the prisoners and attest to a world that...

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: The Estonian History Museum, Tallin

: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland. Gordon Gnessia with a man, before the war.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Abram Chukernik with a toboggan in the snow, Prewar.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Shepsel Prushan with the "Maccabi Stella" soccer team, Wilno, Poland (today Vilnius, Lithuania), 24/08/1929.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Josef Gorfinkel with a dog in a wooded area, Prewar.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Probably Genia Shapira, wife of Shepsel (Shabtai) Bliacher, Wilno, Poland (today Vilnius, Lithuania), March 1938.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Abram Chukernik, standing in front of the fabric store in which he worked, before the war.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland, Szabtaj Shepsel Prushan with a baby and a stroller.

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.

Vilna, Poland. A photograph that belonged to Liba Gurevitz before the war.

Leiba was born in Vilna and he worked as a mechanic. He was shot dead in the Klooga Labor Camp on 19/09/1944. Klooga Labor Camp was the largest in Estonia. Most of the camp's inmates were from Vilna Ghetto. On 07-08/1944, with the start of the soviet campaign, most of the inmates were transferred to Stutthof Camp. In mid September, with the collapse of the German Front in Estonia, the Germans did not have enough time to remove the Jews from Klooga Labor Camp. On 19/09/1944 the inmates of the camp were taken to a forest and shot. On that day 2,400 Jewish inmates were murdered with 100 Soviet...

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: Vilna, Poland, Prewar, a Collection of Family Portraits and Sports Clubs.