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  4. Kretinga, Lithuania, Rivka (Bernstein) Gilenia with her children, December 6, 1937.

Kretinga, Lithuania, Rivka (Bernstein) Gilenia with her children, December 6, 1937.

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A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir to my beloved sister, from your sister and the children of the landlady"
34 Photographs of the Bernstein family in Lithuania and the Feifer family in Poland.
Masha Erlianski (first from the left in the second row), step-mother of Rina Bernstein.
Rina was born in the Kowno ghetto on February 25, 1942. Her mother, Rivka Bernstein, perished in the ninth Fort with her two elder children. She threw Rina beyond the ghetto wall, and Rina survived. Rina died in the United States in July 2,000. Masha Erlianski lived in Israel.
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Kretinga, Lithuania, Rivka Bernstein (aunt of the submitter) and another woman, May 31, 1937.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir from your sister who misses you Rivka. Kretinga, May 31, 1937".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Lithuania, Hinda Bernstein (aunt of the submitter), before the war.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Levy Feifer Lev (father of the submitter, on the left) with his friend Levy Szwartz, 1932.
Levy Szwartz perished during the war. He had a sister named Freida Bogelman. Levy Feifer took the photograph to Eretz Israel.
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/32
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Sara Leah nee Feifer (aunt of the submitter) with her husband Biril Tenenboim, before the war.
The photograph was sent to Levy Feifer in Eretz Israel.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Pesia Feifer (aunt of the submitter) with her husband Aharon, before the war.
Levy Feifer, father of the submitter, took the photograph with him to Eretz Israel before the war.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Moshe Feifer (uncle of the submitter) with his wife Hesia, January 8, 1933.
Moshe sent this photograph to Levy, his brother, in Eretz Israel. A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir to my brother Levy, Moshe and Hesia. Luck 8/1/1933".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Hesia, girlfriend of Moshe Feifer (uncle of the submitter), 1939.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir I am giving you, sir, my photograph - unfamiliar as yet, Hesia. Luck, January 8, 1930".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Moshe Feifer (uncle of the submitter) and his girlfriend Hesia, 1939.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir, Hesia and Moshe. Luck, January 8, 1939".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Poland, Unidentified woman of the Feifer family, before the war.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Poland, two sisters of Levy Feifer Lev (father of the submitter), before the war.
Levy Feifer took the photograph with him to Eretz Israel.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Poland, Three women, probably of Feifer family, before the war.
Levy Feifer (father of the submitter) brought the photograph with him when he made Aliya to Eretz Israel before the war.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Group photo of the family of Levi Feifer Lev (father of the submitter), probably before 1933.
Levy Feifer brought the photograph with him to Eretz Israel. Upper row: first from the right - Moshe, at the center - Simcha (born 1906, survived, married Klara), first from the left - Rivka (born 1918, survived). Bottom row: first from the right - Levi Feifer (born 1908, survived, married Ida Bernstein, father of the submitter), second from the left - Chana, mother of Levy. Her husband Yitzhak was murdered by Ukrainians in front of his son Levy, who was also knifed. Also in the photograph: Dova, Rachel, Ben Zion and Josef. Rivka (Feifer) married Alter Norok-Nur. they had four children:...
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/24
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Levi Feifer Lev (father of the submitter).
A caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Identity card No. 28110/5, Levy Lev".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Luck, Poland, Levi Feifer Lev (father of the submitter), aged 11, in a youth group, before the war.
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/22
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Group photograph at a wedding, 1931.
Most of the photographed perished. Family relations: great-grandmother of the submitter - Freida Bernstein - is the mother of the grandfather Yaakov and his sister Breina Duchin. Some of their children are seen in the photograph: Rivka, Ben Zion and Hinda - children of Yaakov; Liba, Szejna, Rajzel, Leibe-Arje and Rivka, children of Breina. In the photograph, by the numbers: Upper row: 11 - Rivka Bernstein, 15 - Ben Zion Bernstein, 19 - Hinda Bernstein; Second row: 16 - Yaakov Bernstein, 17 - Eta (Bernstein) Edelman, 14 - Szejna Duchin; Third row: Leiba Arie Duchin, 16 - Liba...
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/21
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Kibbutz Lahav, Israel, Rina (Bernstein) Glaz in a visit to Israel, October 28, 1998.
Rina was born in the Kowno ghetto on February 25, 1942. Her mother, Rivka, perished in the ninth Fort with her two elder children. She threw Rina beyond the ghetto wall, and Rina survived. Her father, Szmuel, was in the Red Army, and survived. Rina died in the United States in July 2,000.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Salant, Lithuania, Working with wood at "Hatzair" kibbutz, March 19, 1935.
From left to right: Szmuel Markoszewitz, Moshe Segal, Ben Zion Bernstein (uncle of the submitter), Chaja Marok (Siaci), Eta Riw, Dov Lewitac and Jona Markowitz. A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir to my sister Ida from your brother Ben Zion, April 12, 1935."
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Rivka (right) and Hinda Bernstein, 1937.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "eternal souvenir to our dear sister Ida, remember some day Rivka and Hinda Bernstein, July 22, 1937"
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Liba [Luba?] on the right, Mendel and Rivka Bernstein, before the war.
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/17
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Lithuania, Rivka (Bernstein) Gilnanya in a photograph she sent to her sister Ida in Eretz Israel, June 28, 1938.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Kretinga, Lithuania, Rivka (Bernstein) Gilenia with her children, December 6, 1937.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "as eternal souvenir to my beloved sister, from your sister and the children of the landlady"
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Portrait of Rivka Bernstein (later Gilenia), before the war.
Rivka married Szmuel and they lived in kretinga. During the war Szmuel was a soldier in the Red Army. They moved to Kovno. Rivka perished with two of the children in the 9th Fort. She wrapped the youngest girl, Rina, with tattered garments and threw her beyond the wall. Rina survived and later lived in the United States. Szmuel, too, survived.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Portrait of Mendel Bernstein, 1935.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "As eternal souvenir from your dear brother Mendel Bernstein, May 20, 1935."
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/13
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Neustadt, Lithuania, Ben Zion Bernstein as a soldier, May 30, 1938.
results.listIds.archivalSignature : 9629/12
results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Rivka (left) and Hinda Bernstein, Rut and Szmuel (Rivka's husband), September 2, 1940.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Kretinga, Lithuania, Ben Zion Bernstein as a soldier during a visit, his sister Rivka to his right, May 26, 1939.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Daugavpils, Lithuania, Portrait of Mendel Bernstein, uncle of the submitter, November 9, 1935.
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Rut (right, probably girl friend of Ben Zion), Ben Zion and Hinda Bernstein, siblings of the submitter's mother, July 2, 1940.
A caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Do you recognize the three of us? Rut, Ben Zion, Hinda. Ylakiai, July 2, 1940".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
Ylakiai, Lithuania, Rivka (right), Ben Zion and Hinda Bernstein, siblings of the submitter's mother, February 19, 1935.
A dedication on the back of the photograph reads: "See you soon! from the three of us, wishing you lots of happiness. Ylakiai 19 II 1935".
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results.listIds.credit : Yad Vashem
results.listIds.relatedCollection : 34 Photographs of the Bernstein Family in Lithuania and the Feifer Family in Poland.
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34 Photographs of the Bernstein family in Lithuania and the Feifer family in Poland.
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9629/15
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Isack Lev
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Isack Lev
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Yad Vashem
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Kretinga,Kretinga,<>,Lithuania
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03/04/2012
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Photograph
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Children and Adults
Families
Prewar Period