![The main synagogue in Eishishok, The Russian Empire, 1911](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/1_100.jpg?itok=A43YLxZL)
Standing in front of the synagogue are members of the local Shneider, Sonenson, Wilenski, Kabacznik and Reznik families and Shlomo Farber from Olkenic.
Photographer: Yitzhak Uri Katz
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/39/RN34-2
![The main synagogue in Eishishok, The Russian Empire, 1911](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/1_100.jpg?itok=dwpM2bu5)
![A parade of Jews and Poles celebrating the Polish Independence Day on May 3. Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/2_77.jpg?itok=4qSel5JC)
On the right is the studio of the Jewish photographer Raphael Lejbowicz.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/33/RN27-17
![A parade of Jews and Poles celebrating the Polish Independence Day on May 3. Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2_77.jpg?itok=g5FF_-Z9)
![The Children of the "Gani" kinderfarden dressed for a Purim performance, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/3_45.jpg?itok=35dXJrJG)
The teacher and founder of the kindergarten, Rachel Kaleko, later made Aliyah to Erez Israel.
Photographer: Yitzhak Uri Katz
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/28/RN18-66
![The Children of the "Gani" kinderfarden dressed for a Purim performance, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/3_45.jpg?itok=GvnOF_wB)
![Rabbi Symen Rozowski (1874-1941), the last Rabbi of Eishishok](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/4_44.jpg?itok=HHcUh1qN)
Symen Rozowski (b. 1874 in Kapyl, Belarus) was an ardent religious Zionist and a member of the Mizrahi movement. Served as the Rabbi of Eishishok since 1922. Murdered in September 1941.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Arcives P.65.1/39/RN34-1
![Rabbi Symen Rozowski (1874-1941), the last Rabbi of Eishishok](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/4_44.jpg?itok=65Um2kdC)
![The Eishishok fire department orchestra, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/5_27.jpg?itok=ncWbuGvb)
The orchestra included both Poles and Jews.
From Right to Left:
Top Row: First: Bere-Liebke Garmenishki; Second: Shepke (Shabbtai) Sonenson, murdered in September 1941; Third: Motl Narodowicz, Survived the Holocaust as a Partisan.
Second row: Second: Menachem Politacki, Immigrated to Palestine before the war.
Third row: Third: Gotowicky, the Polish conductor of the orchestra; Fifth: Eishke Levin.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/18/RN2-49
![The Eishishok fire department orchestra, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/5_27.jpg?itok=KDFAIoTI)
![A youth Jewish swimming club, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/6_19.jpg?itok=TWg4mnLo)
The club's leader, Leibke Sonenson (Back row, left), was murdered in September 1941, as well as the majority of the young men in the photo.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/ 20/ RN9-58
![A youth Jewish swimming club, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/6_19.jpg?itok=NXRIlNeO)
![First Grade of the Hebrew day school, Eishishok, Poland, 1932](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/7_14.jpg?itok=h9MGWElZ)
School Principal Yaakov Botwinick (middle). With the exception of one child who immigrated to the USA before the war, all the people in the photo were murdered.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/2/RN1-28
![First Grade of the Hebrew day school, Eishishok, Poland, 1932](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/7_14.jpg?itok=FMoF9UuB)
![Market day in Eishishok, Poland, the 1930's](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/8_21.jpg?itok=Il6xqbM1)
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/7/RN2-159
![Market day in Eishishok, Poland, the 1930's](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/8_21.jpg?itok=uZjg-1KN)
![Yudeleh Kabacznik on his way to the Hebrew School. Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/9_11.jpg?itok=lASc70mE)
His father, Benyamin Kabacznick, watches him in front of their house. Both were killed by the Polish Armia Krajowa in 1944.
Photographer: Raphael Lejbowicz
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/25.1/RN14-61
![Yudeleh Kabacznik on his way to the Hebrew School. Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/9_11.jpg?itok=Ad8BhDfi)
![Bar-Mitzvah celebration of Avremele Botwinik, Eishishok, Poland, 1939](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/10_84.jpg?itok=xQquRO1J)
All the participants were murdered in the Holocaust except of the Bar Mitzvah boy.
From Left to Right:
Top row: Third: Hillel Botwinik, Avremele's brother, murdered in September 1941; Fifth: Yitzhak Botwinik, Avremele's brother, murdered in September 1941.
Bottom row: First: Elisha Koppelman, killed by the Polish Armia Krajowa in 1944; Forth: Moshe Bastunski, Murdered in September 1941; Fifth: Avremele Botwinik, Survived as a Partisan.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/2/RN1-40
![Bar-Mitzvah celebration of Avremele Botwinik, Eishishok, Poland, 1939](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/10_84.jpg?itok=P5rE-Nr8)
![Yoske Shneur Mordekhai Bleicharowicz the coachman and his son Honke, Eishishok, Poland, the 1930's](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/11_67.jpg?itok=SDNAOqmp)
Yoske survived in hiding. Honke was murdered in September 1941 together with his four siblings and mother.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/1/RN1-115
![Yoske Shneur Mordekhai Bleicharowicz the coachman and his son Honke, Eishishok, Poland, the 1930's](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/11_67.jpg?itok=X0j1SF8b)
![Szeina Katzenelenbiogen, one of Eishishok's most popular theater actors. Bialystok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/12_48.jpg?itok=5nZP2WNT)
Szeina was fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and German and was greatly admired by the Germans during the First World War. She owned a hotel that became one of the Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi occupation. Even though the Germans liked her perfect German, good food and comfortable accommodation she was murdered in September 1941.
Photographer: I. Kendel
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/49/RN46-21
![Szeina Katzenelenbiogen, one of Eishishok's most popular theater actors. Bialystok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/12_48.jpg?itok=6dTQqbpc)
![Wedding of Eishishokian Bat Sheva Rozowski and Rabbi David Zalmanovitz from Ilya. Eishishok, Poland, June 17, 1932](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/13_38.jpg?itok=EZ6nlwbY)
Bat Sheva was the daughter of Rabbi Symen Rozowski. Sitting next to her is her mother Rebbezin Miriam Rozowski, Next to the groom is his Mother Dvorah Zalmanovitz. Standing behind them are Bat Sheva's sister-in-law and David's sisters. In the front row are their little nephews and nieces. All the people seen in the photograph were murdered in the Holocaust: The Rozowski family in September 1941, Bat Sheva, David and their three children were murdered in Treblinka.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/39/RN34-3
![Wedding of Eishishokian Bat Sheva Rozowski and Rabbi David Zalmanovitz from Ilya. Eishishok, Poland, June 17, 1932](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/13_38.jpg?itok=z9g2wCZo)
![A group of girls from the Beitar youth movement with two of their youth leaders, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/14_36.jpg?itok=QdaFwCyg)
From left to right: First: Zvi-Hirske Schwartz, survived as a Partisan; Second: Schwartz, Zvi's sister, murdered in September 1941; Third: Sarah'le Tatarski, murdered in September 1941; Fifth: Portnoy, murdered in September 1941; Sixth: Matke Shlepak, murdered in September 1941; Seventh: Koppelman, murdered in September 1941; Eighth: Hannah Sczczuczynski, killed by the Polish Armia Krajowa in 1944; Ninth: Shifra Berczanski, made Aliya to Eretz Israel before the war.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/17/RN8-35
![A group of girls from the Beitar youth movement with two of their youth leaders, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/14_36.jpg?itok=ot9ajcot)
![Eishishokian Gedalia Ginunski as part of the famous Vilner Hazzanim Quartet](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/15_34.jpg?itok=7RtzgieC)
Gedalia is standing at the far left. He was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/40/RN36-7
![Eishishokian Gedalia Ginunski as part of the famous Vilner Hazzanim Quartet](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/15_34.jpg?itok=MqvUAc0-)
![Pessah Avrahami working as a lumberjack at the Halutz Hachsharah (Zionist training center), Oszmiana, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/16_37.jpg?itok=JoL7Bm9U)
Pessah was married to Eishishokian Sarah Plotnik. When they immigrated Sarah became one of the last people from Eishishok to make Aliya to Erez Israel before the war. Yechiel Blacharowicz, an Eishishokian that worked with Pessah at the Hachsharah did not get an immigration certificate and was murdered in September 1941.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/74/RN72-23
![Pessah Avrahami working as a lumberjack at the Halutz Hachsharah (Zionist training center), Oszmiana, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/16_37.jpg?itok=kPtElKTc)
![Members of various Zionist organizations dancing in honor of friends who were about to make Aliyah, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/17_25.jpg?itok=_hmkeerG)
From right to left: First: Fania Botwinik, murdered in the Holocaust; Second: Golda Kabacznik, murdered in the Holocaust; Third: Shepke Sonenson, murdered in the Holocaust; Fourth: Miriam Koppelman, died natural death; Seventh: Szeina Blacharowicz, survived in hiding; Ninth: Motke Burstein, murdered in the Holocaust.
Photographer: Ben Zion Szrejder
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/41/RN38-3
![Members of various Zionist organizations dancing in honor of friends who were about to make Aliyah, Eishishok, Poland](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/17_25.jpg?itok=MwlKXgfL)
![Atara Kudlanski rides a bicycle, Eishishok, Poland, October 30, 1930](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/18_26.jpg?itok=tfHi3LZS)
In 1933 she joined her father and immigrated to the USA.
Photographer: Rephael Lejbowicz
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/25.1/RN14-14
![Atara Kudlanski rides a bicycle, Eishishok, Poland, October 30, 1930](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/18_26.jpg?itok=DkTUQtvB)
![Eishishokian Hayyim-Yoske Bielicki as a Soviet soldier during World War II](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/19_18.jpg?itok=DnkEIihT)
He participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, where he was wounded, and was highly decorated for his combat performance.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/31/RN20-1
![Eishishokian Hayyim-Yoske Bielicki as a Soviet soldier during World War II](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/19_18.jpg?itok=82jIsZ5r)
![Eishishokian Holocaust survivor Zlatke Garber Paikowski in a British detention camp, Cyprus, 1946](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/20_17.jpg?itok=U_Ssk7z3)
Zlatke is on the left, with her friend Leah Slodivnik, a survivor from Radun.
Yad Vashem Archives P.65.1/51.1/RN52-44
![Eishishokian Holocaust survivor Zlatke Garber Paikowski in a British detention camp, Cyprus, 1946](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/20_17.jpg?itok=u5a2uS-0)