Zalman Kaplan, Photographer |
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The town's
photographer, taking almost all photos in Szczuczyn up until his
death in WWII. His story; book about him and his photos; some of the
touring exhibits. |
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Memoirs:
Felice Ozerowicz Massie (Bay Area Holocaust Center) |
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eBook Excerpts from "Felice's Worlds" |
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Born in Szczuczyn in 1910, she was an assimilated Jewish
woman from a wealthy family who went to gymnasium in Vilna, Lithuania and then studied dentistry at the university
in Nancy, France, before moving to Palestine in 1935,
then to America in 1938. Her memoirs
give depictive accounts of her family life in Szczuczyn. |
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Memoirs:
Fay Jozefson Bernstein |
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She was born in Szczuczyn in 1910. Her father died when she was only 6-months-old, and her mother
was left to take on the struggle of supporting
all five children. Her memoirs give great
insight into the family's ability to carry on, as well as detailed
accounts of daily life in Szczuczyn. |
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Yitzhak
Zimnowicz Letter, 1938 |
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Very insightful letter, written 1938, within a week after Kristallnacht, depicting a clear sense of awareness
of the tragic events going on in the world around him. |
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Wengrowsky Letter, 1937 |
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Letter written to the Nochim Wengrowsky family in Mexico, by his
cousin Esther, then living in Suwalki, describing the
situation of the family left behind in Poland. |
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Szczuczyn
Landsmen Society
Letters, 1937 |
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Letters written from Szczuczyn to the Szczuczyn Landsmen Society in Israel. |