Yaffa Sonenson (now Eliach) feeds chickens in front of her family’s summer home in Tetlance on June 23, 1941. Behind the camera is her grandmother Alte Katz, who owned a photo studio in Eyshishok. Yaffa survived the Holocaust in hiding, but her grandmother was murdered.
Years later, Yaffa set out to recapture memories of life in Eyshishok before the Holocaust. Over 15 years, she traveled around the world in search of photographs of the community. More than 1,000 of the images she collected are now displayed in a three-story tower at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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