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George Preston's scrapbook

George Preston's scrapbook

George Preston's scrapbook

Grisza (Gersz) Priszkulnik started this scrapbook in Poland and finished it in France, where he was arrested by the Gestapo on Aug. 8, 1942, and where he returned three years later after surviving Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

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George Preston's scrapbook

George Preston's scrapbook

Grisza was born in Rovno, Russia (soon it was Równe, Poland): Top left, 1 year old in 1915 with his mother, Sonia Szojmer Priszkulnik; bottom right, 1938.

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Rovno: Housekeeper Vera with baby Grisza

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Równe: Younger brother, Jascha, skates with hockey stick on ice-covered pond; Jascha with cousin Chaim (Misha) Boyarsky; Grisza with Jascha; Grisza plays mandolin; father, Dovid Leyb Priszkulnik, reads a newspaper at home.

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Równe, 1929: Grisza, 15, dressed as Charlie Chaplin for a Purim ball.

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Równe: Grisza with Oświata School classmates: in chemistry lab; on Lag B'Omer and Purim in the Sosenki forest.

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Nowostaw, 1929: The family vacationed in a rented house there in summers, surrounded by pine trees and with a river to swim. Grisza's father would join on weekends.

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Równe, 1929: Top center, Grisza and three other boys wearing the special hat of the Oświata School.

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Nowostaw, 1929-30: Grisza and friends

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Równe and Nowostaw: bottom left, 1938 photo of Jascha, father, stepmother; right, Wolf Boyarsky, Grisza's uncle. 

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Równe: Cousin Aron Marchez and unknown others

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Równe, 1930-31: Grisza the artist with palette and posters on Feb. 27, 1931; New Year's greeting, sixth grade; "Dawn," wall newspaper edited by Grisza, No. 6, Jan. 12, 1930; "Literary Department."

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Równe: 1929, Grisza plays chess. 1934, Grisza in swimsuit rests arm on a girl's leg. Center right, Grisza has thumb on a girl's arm. Pink photo, cousin Aron Marchez. 

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Warsaw, before-and-after images from a postwar French periodical: Top, Royal Castle, destroyed by Germans in September 1944; lower left, Napoleon Square; lower right, Brühl Palace, destroyed by Germans on Dec. 18, 1944.

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Równe: Sonia Szojmer Priszkulnik wearing fur, pregnant with Grisza, Dec. 20, 1913. Sonia with her younger sister, Fania. Sonia at front entrance to the house on Zdolbunow Street.

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Równe: left, Sonia Szojmer Priszkulnik, Grisza's mother; right, her sister, Fania Szojmer Boyarsky.

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Równe, 1929, and Nowostaw, 1929-30: Grisza plays chess. Sonia at bottom left. At bottom right in tiny photo is Sonia in Warsaw, where Grisza accompanied her to a doctor's visit. 

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Równe: Sonia at front entrance to the house on Zdolbunow Street (same photo on Page 14). In the empty space was a photo of Sonia, lying dead in her bedroom on Friday, Oct. 10, 1931. She died of an undiagnosed ailment at age 42. The photo is temporarily missing.

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Nowostaw, 1930: Grisza with parents and brother

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Warsaw: Grisza the engineering student

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Warsaw, before-and-after images from a postwar French periodical: top, French embassy; bottom, St. Alexander's Church 

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Wilno (Vilnius), 1935: Grisza the engineering student

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Cousin Aron Marchez photo inscribed to Grisza from Równe on Jan. 31, 1937. Aron survived the war in Russia and reunited with Grisza in Moscow in 1984.

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Wilno (Vilnius), 1935: Grisza the engineering student

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Krzemieniec, 1934-35; Lwów, 1935-36; Krynica

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University of Caen, 1935-36: Georges Priszkulnik studying at 14 Rue Frementel

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Georges on a motorcycle

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Le Havre, 1936

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1936

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Sept. 15, 1936: Suzanne

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Caen, 1937

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University of Caen, Technical Institute of Normandy, 1937: Grisza at far left. Diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering issued to "Gersz Priszkulnik," June 22, 1937. Same 21 men on Page 32.

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University of Caen, Technical Institute of Normandy, 1937: Grisza at far left in front row. Diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering issued to "Gersz Priszkulnik," June 22, 1937. 

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Deauville and Trouville, 1936-37

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Caen, 1937: Grisza and a friend at monument to galloping 14th century knight Bertrand du Guesclin, dedicated 1922. Sculptor Arthur J. le Duc (1848-1918). Same photo on Page 32.

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Równe, 1935, and Truskawiec, 1936:  Grisza's father, stepmother, and brother listen to a radio broadcast; Grisza smokes a pipe.

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Grisza and friends pose at a tree. Location and date unknown.

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Paris

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Paris

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Paris, 1937: Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life)

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Paris, 1937

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Paris, 1937

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Paris, 1937

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Paris, 1938

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Paris, 1937

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Paris, 1937

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Paris, 1937

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Paris, 1937

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Versailles, 1937

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Versailles, 1937

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Versailles, 1937

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Versailles and Paris, 1937

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Versailles, 1937

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Równe, 1938-39: Grisza visits his family; Grisza plays the mandolin; his stepmother plays the piano; bottom center, cousin Aron Marchez.

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Boston: Photos sent by relatives and positioned on page to replace Paris photos. Left, Uncle Philip Kramer and family; center and right, Aunt Jennie Kliger, her husband Philip Kliger, son Herbert Kliger. Philip Kramer and Jennie Kliger were siblings of Dovid Leyb Priszkulnik.

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Równe, 1938-39

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Równe, 1938-39

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Krynica, 1938

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Nowostaw, 1938

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Krynica, 1938 (same photos on Page 57)

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Malo-les-Bains (Dunkirk), 1939

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Równe: Brothers Grisza and Jascha. Jascha and their father and stepmother were among 23,500 Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Sosenki forest by German death squads and Ukrainian collaborationists over three days in November 1941.

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Lille, 1939-40

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Lille, 1940: Georges Priszkulnik, engineer

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Lille, 1940

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Brussels, 1940

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Lille, 1940

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Lille, 1940

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Lille, 1940: Georges Priszkulnik, engineer

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Lille, 1940

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Wilmington, Delaware, December 1982: Bill Frank column, Wilmington News-Journal, inserted out of chronological sequence

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Seclin and Amiens, 1940

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Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, 1940: Top and center, Notre-Dame de Lorette, French National War Cemetery. The gate reads 1914. The cemetery holds the remains of 40,000 French Army soldiers, more than 22,000 of whom are marked as unknown.

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The origin of this photo of Grisza/Georges and the reason he placed it on this page are unclear.

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Lille

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Bersée

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Lille

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Lille: Georges Priszkulnik

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Lille

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Paris: The last page is adorned with the advertising cards of four popular Parisian night spots.

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