Portrait of Szeina Katzenelenboigen, a Jewish actress and hotel owner in Eyshishok. Szeina was fluent in five languages and helped establish a library in the community. Photo taken in Bialystok, Poland.
When German forces occupied Eyshishok in June 1941, they took over Szeina’s hotel and used it as their local headquarters. German Einsatzkommando 3 and Lithuanian auxiliary forces later killed Szeina during the September 1941 massacre.
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