Treasure Trove of Chabad Soviet Refugees Photos Discovered

In a stash of photos obtained by Hasidic Archives, families who had smuggled across the border between the Soviet Union and Poland—and who later resided in Pocking, Germany, and the suburbs of Paris, France—can be seen in family portraits.

Among the first batch released today are photos of the Kazen (23), Deitsch (17, 20 and 21), Rivkin (4), Garelik (5 and 12), Teibel (7), and Kaminetsky (18) families.

Can you identify any of the others in the photos?

14 Comments

  • Watermark

    It would be a lot easier without that ridiculous watermark of whoever put these out.

  • Mimi Rosenfeld

    #15 is rabbi lipa schapiro, mrs chana schapiro and 3 of their children

  • Yosef

    Pretty sure:
    2. Balkin
    6. Morozov
    7. Taubel
    10. Gansburg
    11. Azimov
    12. Vilenkin
    17. S. Deitsch
    19. Reitzes
    20. S. Deitsch
    21. M. Deitsch
    23. Korf

  • Mendy Gansburg

    Yes 10 is indeed Gansburg. R’ Schneur Zalman and his wife Bat-Sheva Tzeidka as well as her mother Yocheved Miriam Karasik and the boy the R’ Zalman’s right is Yackov Boruch A”h to this left Sholom Ber A”h and in front of him is Yblct”A Yitzchok

  • Anonymous

    12. Garelik family: Hadasa (Perman) Father Chaim M Garelik, Gershon Mendel Garelik and Yocheved (Zalmanov)

  • Levin

    1-mottel levin and his wife Yehudis (nee drizin)

    And their son Leibke

    Aleihem Hashalom