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Shabbtai Sonenso and Teacher
Shabbtai (Shepske) Sonenso takes one of the shtetl's Hebrew teachers for a ride on his new motorcycle, 1941.
Subject
- History
Language
English — USUpdated
Credit:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / The Shtetl Foundation, photographer Ben-Zion Szrejder
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