Ushpol People

A group of Jewish friends in Ushpol. Standing on the right side - Buna
Zimmerman - daughter of Rachel and Shlomo Zimmerman (aunt of Ruth Stern, who contributed this photo)

Hashomer Hatzair in Ushpol , April 10, 1928 
(Socialist Zionist Youth Movement, associated with the kibbutz movement)

From right to left: Zelda Shapira, Rachel Katz, Rivka Wolowitz, Bracha Karanowitz, Yitzchak Poritz, Chatzkel Halberstadt, Leah Lafer, Arik Elchanan, Leibl (worked as a apprentice of Moishe-Shneor “Der Schneider, ” the tailor)

Identifications courtesy of  "There Was a Shtetl in Lithuania, Dusiat Reflected in Reminiscences" and Yakov Kopelansky

Hashomer Hatzair in Ushpol , April 10, 1928

From right to left, standing: Rivka Wolowitz, Baile Schlosberg, Moshe Shur, Musha Schlosberg, Zelda Schlechter, Baile Fisher, Leibl, Chatzkel Halberstadt, Bracha Karanowitz.
Middle row: Arik Elchanan, Rachel Katz, Yitzchak Poritz, Leah Lafer, Berl-Leib Shur (Moshe Shur's brother)
Kneeling: Chaya Slonimsky, Avraham (the family moved to Utena), Zelda Shapira, (-), Avraham's brother, daughter of Yankl Birger

Identifications courtesy of  "There Was a Shtetl in Lithuania, Dusiat Reflected in Reminiscences" and Yakov Kopelansky

Shlomo Zimmerman, who was a Shochet (Jewish ritual slaughterer) and butcher and his daughter Shprintze, in about 1920.  (mother and grandfather of Ruth Stern, who contributed these photos)