A group of friends celebrates Avremele Botwinik’s bar mitzvah in Eishyshok in 1939. Avremele sits in the center, smiling behind the cake. Seated near him are Moshe Bastunski (second from the left) and Avigdor Katz (right). Standing behind Avremele are Elisha Koppelman (second from the left) and Moshe Kaplan (second from the right).
Avremele became a partisan, and was the only one in the photograph to survive World War II. Seven of the children were murdered in the September 1941 massacre in Eyshishok. Elisha was killed separately.
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