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Studio photograph of Raja Finkelsztejn

The photograph shows Raja Finkelsztejn (Finkelstein) (born 1912), at about eight years of age.

The earliest surviving photograph of Raja Finkelsztejn (a secondary copy, most likely from the 1960s, on agfa-portrig paper). A studio photo, in a typical studio style from that period (book, body positioning). There is a striking similarity of Raja Finkelsztejn, married name Kurc, and her daughter Fanny-Krystyna - from the photos preserved of the period when Fanny-Krystyna was hidden by the Wajcman family (see photos from the period of hiding). In those photos, Krystyna also had a part of her hair tied up, a bow put on and the hair were of similar length as Raja’s in this photo.

In the first half of the 1960s, Krystyna's cousin, Anna Szenberg, told her that the Parisian part of the family had found Krystyna's relative in Israel. Zalman Jahalam was Krystyna's cousin, who immigrated to Palestine in 1922. Zalman and Krystyna made contact by correspondence. After about a year, he sent Krystyna a ship ticket. In Israel, she received family photos that her mother sent to her uncle in 1932; of some of them she made secondary prints, this is one of them.

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Information about the object
Object type
photography
Time of creation / dating
20th century
Created place
Białystok (Podlaskie Province)
Technique
black-and-white photograph
Material
photographic print paper
Keywords
Copyrights status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-A19.1.1