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Vonihovo Family Photos

To be inclusive, we contacted all of the Vonihovo researchers with an e-mail address listed in JewishGen (as of 17 October 2012). We asked each person contacted for family photographs or anything else to make the Vonihovo shtetl web pages in JewishGen's KehilaLinks more interesting for all current and future researchers. Our sincere appreciation is expressed to all who responded.

Below, you will find photos of families that once lived in Vonihovo. In most cases, the photos you see survived the Holocaust only because they were mailed to relatives in the United States and elsewhere.

If you have any family photos of the Jewish families from Vonihovo, click HERE to contact me.

( * = Murdered in Auschwitz )

~ Individual Family Photos ~
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Helen GROSSMAN c. 1940 Photo: Courtesy of Stanley M. DUB, USA Standing in front of her dress shop, in Rachov, a larger town near Vinif, where she was working as a seamstress. Elya David DAVIDOVITCH c. 1932 Courtesy Stanley M. DUB, USA He was married to Ratza GROSSMAN from Vinif. He disappeared from their town in Poland in late 1942 and was presumed discovered and killed trying to return to Vinif.

~ Multi-Person Family Photos ~
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Helen GROSSMAN and cousin, Yaakov GROSSMAN c. 1940 Photo: Courtesy of Stanley M. DUB, USA In back of the Helen's house in Vinif, in front of a haystack. Yaakov survived Auschwitz and emigrated to Israel. Bela * and Eliezer Mordechai SLOMOVITZ * 1935 Photo: Courtesy of Stanley M. DUB, USA Photo taken on their wedding day. It is remembered Eliezer was given a dowry of gold coins in a sack and he put them under his hat, but somehow lost them at the wedding celebration. They had three young daughters shipped to Auschwitz in May, 1944. Upon arrival at the "selection point" at Auschwitz, Eliezer volunteered to take another person's young child because he wanted to stay with his family. The other mother survived, but Eliezer was gassed with his family.

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Helen GROSSMAN, Goldie unknown (friend) * and Tzivia GROSSMAN * 1940 Photo: Courtesy of Stanley M. DUB, USA On the side of the GROSSMAN house in Vinif. Tzivia is also shown in the Vinif school class picture. Tzivia was gassed upon arrival at Belzec, September, 1942. Helen was the only survivor from the Asher Zelig GROSSMAN family. Helen thought Goldie perished but did not know the circumstances and could not recall her last name. If you can identify Goldie above, click HERE to contact me. Helen, Ruth * and Ethel GROSSMAN * Spring, 1941 Photo: Courtesy of Stanley M. DUB, USA The photo was taken just weeks before the family was deported to Poland by the Hungarians. Ruth was gassed upon arrival at Belzec in September, 1942. Ethel died shortly before liberation, Spring 1944. She was living that winter in an underground bunker with Helen and 25 others, in the woods outside Borszczow Ghetto, Poland. After heavy spring rains, the bunker collapsed, killing many. Helen survived, Ethel died. They were liberated by Russians a few weeks later.

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Helen GROSSMAN January 1945 Photo: Courtesy of Stanley M. DUB, USA Photo taken shortly after her liberation by Russians, but before the end of the war; She was 24 and one of only a handful of Jews from Vinif who survived the holocaust.

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~ Class Photos ~
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Vonyhove Class 1930-31 Courtesy Stanley M. DUB, USA Top row, 4th from the left, Helen GROSSMAN (partially obscured), age 10 If you can identify anyone above, click HERE to contact me.
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Vonyhove Class 1936-37 Courtesy Stanley M. DUB, USA and Gita (née SHIOVITZ) HOFFMAN, USA (1) unknown boy, (2) unknown boy, (3) unknown boy, (4) unknown boy, (5) Larry HERSHKOVITCH, (6) unknown boy, (7) Moshe UNKNOWN (the shochet's son), (8) unknown boy, (9) unknown girl, (10) unknown girl, (11) Czech teacher, name unknown, (12) Chaika KAHN, (13) unknown girl, (14) unknown girl, (15) Tsuri KAHN, (16) unknown girl, (17) Rose (last kname unknown), the schochet's daughter, (18) unknown girl, (19) unknown boy, (20) Schmuel SHREIBER, (21) Hersh GROSSMAN, (22) Tzili (Celie) GROSSMAN, (23) unknown girl, (24) Laitshu KAHN, (25) unknown girl, (26) unknown girl, (27) Gita SHIOVITZ, (28) unknown boy and (29) unknown boy If you can identify anyone above, click HERE to contact me.

~ Hungarian Forced Labor Battalions ~
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Created and Compiled by: Marshall J. KATZ, USA with assistance from: Amos Israel ZEZMER, France and the following: JewishGen members/descendants and contributors of Vonihovo Jewish families: Stanley M. DUB, USA Gita (née SHIOVITZ) HOFFMAN, USA

Updated: 10 December 2020

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