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The family of Abram Pilnick of Lyakhovichi
Here photographed in Media PA (near Philadelphia) with his wife Chaya Ruchel Hefter Pilnick and his children from left to right, Lifsche (Lillian), Hersh (Harry), Zipe Ratzi (Rose), and Chava (Evelyn). This Lyakhovichi shoemaker shows up in the draft records of our town, in tax records, in Minsk Vedemosti notices, and in the migration records of Hamburg, NY, Philadelphia, and Antwerp, as he went back and forth from the United States to Lyakhovichi and Slutsk at least five times between 1896 and 1913. This picture of the family of her maternal grandparents was provided to the webmaster by, Irene Kleiman Solomon Nudelman, my mother, may her memory be for a blessing.
The Poczepoff Family
David and Henia (Budovlya) Poczepoff with their family. David had been married and left a widower, the four older children were from that first marriage; the younger from his marriage to Henia. Henia was from Lyakhovichi, David appears to have been from one of the small dependent towns around Lyakhovichi - The Poczepoff surname appears in the Gorodysche closer to Lyakhovichi (there is another north of Baranovichi).
Thanks to Ruth Kornbluth for the picture of the Poczepoff family!
The Pinczuk Family of Lyakhovichi
Shaya and Ginda Pinczuk and their children Szulama and Sonia in 1937. Thankyou to Sheron Stone, for reaching out at a difficult time. Thankyou also to Sheron for giving me such positive feedback on the FaceIndex which has a 1905 portrait of Shaya Pinczuk as a teenager!
The Novogrodsky Family of Lyakhovichi The younger boy is Shaya Novogrodsky. This is another "branch" of the Budowlya family, as Shaya married Sara Budovlya, but I can't find my notes on who sent it to me to thank them, someone refresh my memory please! (and let me know who the others in the picture are!)
The Shklyar family of Lyakhovichi and Baranovichi, 1930sThis family never returned to Lyakhovichi after WWI
The Kamm/Kaplan family of Lyakhovichi See our biography page on this family!
 The family of mohel Menahem Joel Kaplan, 1933
In the back row are Menahem's sons. All the way to the right is Yekutiel Kaplan and next to him is his wife Reizel Peker Kaplan of Lyakhovichi.
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Family Photos of People Who Once Lived in Lyakhovichi
by Deborah G. Glassman, copyright 2008
Copyrights of images retained by their owners, this is a protected publication not a release to the public domain. The Webmaster takes this opportunity to thank again all of the generous members of the Lyakhovichi Research Community who shared these valuable treasures!
All of the photos selected for this page of Family Photos are Studio Portraits.
Studio Portraits from Lyakhovichi
Deborah Glassman, copyright 2008
The research report that will fill this space has not yet been written, too much data still needs to be collected before it makes sense to draw conclusions. I want to include information on who did the photography, how they were trained, what services they offered. Then, each additional sample included, increases the information that we can draw from any individual example.
We know just enough to whet our appetites. Alter Brevda began taking photographs sometime in the nineteenth century as a photographer assistant to an itinerant photographer. He eventually built a studio onto his father's building on Market Place (Bazarskaya) and put out display signs advertising his work. The signage was sufficiently prominent and attractive that when shortly before WWI, a group of young people wanted to start a theater group, they begged for Mr. Brevda to post the show notices here and he obliged. Others put up signs also, but this was the place where people were accustomed to stop and see new photo samples. Perhaps the display cases looked like these in this photo, generously shared with the permission of webmaster Jose Gutstein, from the Szczuczyn, Poland shtetl website.
The photographer's signs and display cases at the street front, inviting in the passerbys, as Alter Brevda's did on Lyakhovichi's busiest street
The Mark below and the translations in handwriting, were shared by Arthur Lowell, who turned over a 1902 picture of the Lifschitz family to see what else could be learned. This copy had faded badly, perhaps you have a clearer example?
A. Brevda's photographic mark on the back of the photo cardstock.
Several of the portraits on the first photographic page, Images of Lyakhovichi, would fit perfectly into this category of Studio Portraits. But I would prefer to build a new collection for this page rather than duplicating images. Please share your family photos!
There are additional pages of images and photos, and we expect to add more!
Images of Lyakhovichi
Photos - Family Portraits You Are Here
Lyakhovichi Residents Abroad
The Rachil Sztejn Palgon Collection
Workman's Circle NYC 1923
Face Index A- K
Face Index - L-R
Face Index - S-Z
Photos in Lyakhovichi Cemeteries
Readers' Visual Archive -Documents
Historic Sites of Lyakhovichi
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Compiled by Deborah G. Glassman
First Posting by DGG Dec 2004, Updates July 2005, Nov 2007, Winter 2008. Most Recent Update May 2008.
There are around 130 separate pages on this
site in 2008, All copyright of each page (unless designated elsewhere on
the specific page) is retained to Deborah G. Glassman.
Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
Deborah G. Glassman
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