Holding hands, the Sonenson family walks along a snow-covered street in Eyshishok in 1940. From left to right are Yitzhak, Moshe, Yaffa, and Zipporah.
German forces occupied Eyshishok in June 1941 and initiated a massacre there three months later. The Sonensons survived the war in hiding, but Zipporah was killed shortly after Eyshishok was liberated.
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