Pictures from the Ghetto Fighters' Collection from Lohamei Hagetaot
The following pictures are from the Lohamei Hagetaot, Museum, Israel. They were sent by Eilat Gordin Levitan.
A group of Jewish socialist revolutionaries from Vitebsk turn of century (c1900).
![Socialist](Lohamei_Hagetaot/1. vitebsk socialists.jpg)
Israel - Yosef Abramis, a teacher from Vitebsk, with his pupils.
Members of HaChalutz in Vitebsk on the way to Palestine (picture was taken at their stop in Rokiskis, Lithuania). ![Zionists](Lohamei_Hagetaot/1. vitebsk zionists immigrating.jpg)
Solomon Shif, a young Jew from Vitebsk, member of a revolutionary movement that wanted to overthrow the Russian tsar.
![Revolutionary](Lohamei_Hagetaot/vitebsk revolutionary.jpg)
Members of the HeChaluts movement in the first agricultural pioneering training group (hachshara) in Vitebsk 1921.
![HeChaluts 1921](Lohamei_Hagetaot/vitebsk first hacshara 1921.jpg)
Members of an agricultural pioneering training farm (hachshara) of the HeChaluts movement in Vitebsk, in their
vegetable patch.
![Vege patch](Lohamei_Hagetaot/vitebsk hachshara.jpg)
Members of an agricultural pioneering training farm (hachshara) of the HeChaluts movement in Vitebsk 1921.
![HeChaluts](Lohamei_Hagetaot/vitebsk hachsara 2.jpg)
Zalman Skorobogatov, a Jewish revolutionary from Vitebsk.
![Zalman](Lohamei_Hagetaot/1.zalman.jpg)
Avraham Amsterdam of Vitebsk.
![Avraham Amsterdam](Lohamei_Hagetaot/1. avraham amsterdam.jpg)
Liza Amsterdam of Vitebsk.
![Liza Amsterdam of Vitebsk](Lohamei_Hagetaot/1.liza amsterdam.jpg)
Artist Yehuda Pen lived in Vitebsk he established there the only Jewish art school until Marc Chagall opened the public
Higher School of Art in 1918.
![yehuda pen](Lohamei_Hagetaot/yehuda pen.jpg)
Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport (1863, Vitebsk –1920, Otwock), better known by the pseudonym S. Ansky (or An-ski), was a
scholar who documented Jewish folklore and mystical beliefs.
![zansky](Lohamei_Hagetaot/zansky.jpg)
The Yiddish author and playwright S. An-Ski with his father.
Bielka Yatkin and Liuba Fradkin. Two Jewish young women from Vitebsk who belonged to the revolutionary movement that
opposed the tsarist regime.
![vitebsk 2 socialist women2](Lohamei_Hagetaot/vitebsk 2 socialist women2.jpg)
German soldiers hanging a partisan in Vitebsk.
![z partisan](Lohamei_Hagetaot/z partisan.jpg) ![partisan2](Lohamei_Hagetaot/z partisan2.jpg)
Soviet soldiers in a street in liberated Vitebsk.
![zliberated](Lohamei_Hagetaot/zliberated.jpg)
A Jewish funeral in Vitebsk - woodcut by Shlomo Yudovin. For more information on the artist go to:
http://www.physics.brocku.ca/~edik/Vitebsk/VitebskAmol/node34.html.
![yudvekin2 funeral](Lohamei_Hagetaot/yudvekin2 funeral.jpg)
A view of Vitebsk - woodcut by Shlomo Yudovin. Shlomo Yudovin was born in 1894 in Beshenkovitchi near Vitebsk. Shortly
thereafter, his parents relocated to Vitebsk. Yudovin lived in Vitebsk until 1926.
![Yudiken](Lohamei_Hagetaot/yudvekin.jpg)
Vitebsk marketplace- Chagall.
![Marketplace](Lohamei_Hagetaot/chagal; the market place, vitebsk.jpg)
Chagall; View from the window, Vitebsk.
![Window](Lohamei_Hagetaot/chagall_view_from_vindow_vitebsk.jpg)
There is some additional information about artists and the art school of Vitebsk in an article called The Painters of Vitebsk by Itzhak Likhtenstein found on Ed Sternin's Vitebsk website.
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