Drohiczyn, Poland (photo captions)

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Photo captions from the Drohiczyn Book

Translated by Len Epstein

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The Drohiczyn Landscape 11

The marketplace in the town and the Greek Orthodox Church 45

First Jewish School 49

Reb Mordechi Lintshivsky z”l 55

Keren Kayemet Committee in Drohiczyn 58

Summer camp for the “Hashomer Hatzair” centers in Drohiczyn and Siemiatycze 69

Reb Israel Turnowski (z”l) 73

Students and teacher of seventeen class of the Polish public school 80

“Hashomer Hatzair” in Drohiczyn – the older group 83

The Hebrew Club on an excursion on the Bug (river) 83

The church in Drohiczyn 90

Girls of Religious School – Bais Ya'akov 95

Yosef Blustein z”l – The second trustee of the Chevrah Kadisha (Burial Society) 106

Family Shames z”l 110

The young group with their counselors 112

“Hechalutz Hatzair” [The Young Pioneers] 116

Hershl Block on the bank of the Bug River 117

Jewish students in the school of the Polish State run Gymnasium (High School) 118

“Hashomer Hatzair” center 119

Sixth class of the Polish public school 125

Jewish Football Team in Drohiczyn 134

The town's firemen 146

Jewish students in the first World War 148

Part of Warsaw Street. The houses of families Block and Zuckerman 155

Herschel Reznik z”l 197

Gedalyah Elkis Levin z”l 198

Reb Mordechi Turnowski z”l 203

Chanatsha Block z”l and Reb Israel Block z”l 205

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