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  4. Shmuel Burstein's school uniform cap from the prewar Hebrew Gymnasium in Kovno, Lithuania

Shmuel Burstein's school uniform cap from the prewar Hebrew Gymnasium in Kovno, Lithuania

Shmuel Borstein's cap, part of the school uniform of the Jewish Real ("Reali") Gymnasium in Kovno, Lithuania
Shmuel Borstein's cap, part of the school uniform of the Jewish Real ("Reali") Gymnasium in Kovno, Lithuania

Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Nira Lavid, NJ, USA

Shmuel Borstein (wearing a white shirt, middle row, second from right, marked with an X) in a school photograph at the Real ("Reali") Gymnasium in Kovno, 1922
Shmuel Borstein (wearing a white shirt, middle row, second from right, marked with an X) in a school photograph at the Real ("Reali") Gymnasium in Kovno, 1922

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