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Soviet Refugees Photo Collection Discovered

In a stash of photos obtained by Hasidic Archives, families who had smuggled across the border between the Soviet Union and Poland—and who later resided in Pocking, Germany, and the suburbs of Paris, France—can be seen in family portraits. Full Story

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Number 8
May 4, 2025 10:01 pm

Dovid leib marozov, his wife Ceita
And their children

Family
May 4, 2025 10:01 pm

Picture 19 is the Raicez family

#6 Lokshin Family
May 4, 2025 10:06 pm

The Lokshin Family
Rabbi Mordechai Dovber Lokshin
Mrs. Blum Leah Lokshin
Mrs. Rivka Wilhelm
Mrs. Sara Sanowicz
Mrs. Malka Rosenfeld
Mrs. Tziporah Sufrin
Rebbetzin Miriam Cunin

#15
May 4, 2025 10:25 pm

Schapiro Family

Shapiro family
Reply to  #15
May 4, 2025 10:45 pm

Lipa, Chana and children Raizel (Goldberg), Berl, and Label

Number 16
May 4, 2025 10:27 pm

Yisroel and Mirel Kugel and family

#23
May 4, 2025 10:49 pm

Zalman and Shula Kazen (ie, Katzenelenboigen)
Esther Alperin a”h
Devora Alevsky
Henya Laine
Bluma Weinberg

number 1
May 4, 2025 10:49 pm

mottel and Yehudis Levin and their d
son Laibel

#14 - The Paltiel Family
May 4, 2025 10:50 pm

Father: Dovber (Mother Risha passed away very young.)
Childen: Leizer, Miriam, Abba.

uncle Yossi
May 4, 2025 10:50 pm

# 11

Chim Hille Azimov wife Risheh ( mn Pevzner), Reizel Raskin Chayeh Soroh Shteinzaltz, (Muleh Azimov? Mosheh Nisson Azimov?

#20 Deitsch
May 4, 2025 10:51 pm

Sholom and Mirel Deitsch and children

wow
Reply to  #20 Deitsch
May 5, 2025 10:23 am

You can see so many descendants in their faces.
The schustermans many children have this face!

Soooo True
Reply to  wow
May 5, 2025 12:35 pm

i love this its a chabad tresure

#12 Garelik
May 4, 2025 11:09 pm

Hadassah (Perman)
Chaim Meir
Gershon Mendel
Yeva (Zalmanov)

Raices
May 4, 2025 11:24 pm

#19
R’ Shmuel Yitzchok Raices and his wife Alte Yehudis abd daughter (either Zucker, Tevel or Schechter)

Family
Reply to  Raices
May 5, 2025 7:57 am

Dobeh Tevel

Family
Reply to  Raices
May 5, 2025 8:40 am

Dobeh Tevel

?!!
Reply to  Family
May 5, 2025 9:44 am

Dobeh Giteh Tevl

#17 Dovid and Sara Deitsch and family
May 4, 2025 11:44 pm

Mottel Deitsch, Ose Deitsch, Rochel Sandman

Mendel nemes
May 5, 2025 12:04 am

Number 18 is the kamintzky family reb moshe zalmen his son reuven his daughter gensha gopin his daughter batsheva zilbershtin his daughter my mother zelda nemes

Gansburg #10
May 5, 2025 12:34 am

Zalmen and batsheva gansburg .Her mother and their children

Karasik?
Reply to  Gansburg #10
May 5, 2025 8:05 am

Gansburg from machon leyahadus?

Number 2
May 5, 2025 1:39 am

Chaya Gneshe Balkin,
Aba Balkin
Leah Balkin (Edelman)
Yisroel Balkin

Raices
May 5, 2025 5:04 am

#19….& daughter Doba Tevel

#11
May 5, 2025 6:05 am

Number 11

Azimov famely.

Reb hilel and richa.

Mrs raskin
Mrs even yisrael ( shteinzaltz)
My shver ע”ה

משה ניסן אזימאוו

Beautiful
May 5, 2025 7:57 am

Notice nobody Ever smiles !

Reason
Reply to  Beautiful
May 5, 2025 9:23 am

It was not a thing to smile in photos. No one usually did.

?!!
Reply to  Beautiful
May 5, 2025 9:34 am

This fact shows clearly on the tense circumstances they experienced

Trauma
Reply to  Beautiful
May 5, 2025 10:46 am

Maybe because of the trauma that these people have gone through.

Why?
May 5, 2025 8:25 am

Why were these photos taken and where did they suddenly appear from? Were they sent to the F”R?

re smiling
May 5, 2025 10:11 am

They didn’t smile because, maybe life was hard, but maybe it was just that people were more sincere than today, whenwe pose and put on insincere smiles.
They didnt have time, life was no nonsense. It dosn’t mean they couldn’t smile, in the right time.

Notice nobody Ever smiles !
May 5, 2025 10:59 am

these were professional pictures send to the Frierdikeh Rebbe
they BH BH able to leave and and they send family pictures.
in general in Russia and Europe one didn’t smile in pictures or passport pictures , people were serious!
it was serious times, may we never ever know of them again

Schapiro’s
May 5, 2025 12:21 pm

#15 Rabbi lipa and chana Schapiro with 3 of their children . Berl, raizel & Laibel

lets go
May 5, 2025 3:26 pm

oh ya its the deitschs! best family in lubavitch!!

big Z Schapiro
May 6, 2025 4:26 pm

15 Schapiro nice

rose schreiber
May 7, 2025 9:01 pm

do you have more? i recognized my uncle lipa and his wife and children
and the kaisen family. do you have any for my father and the mochkin family?

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