Номер объектаM2019/037
ОписаниеCompilation photograph from Lithuania showing the school, teachers and female graduates of the Siauliai Ladies Gymnasium (School), 1911. Elaborately embellished by hand, the top left has an illustration of books and a feathered quill with ink well.
The photograph includes Gita Lemchen (pictured far right, third row) and her sister Anna Lemchen (second left, bottom row). The Lemchen family were headed by Avraham and Rachel (Rocha) Lemchen. They lived in Papile, Lithuania, and had six children, of whom Gita was the eldest, born 3 November 1892, and Anna the second.
Gita was sent to school in Siauliai, the nearest large town. On her own in the town, she boarded with a different family while completing seven years at the high school. Anna stayed at home and had private lessons, travelling to Siauliai to complete her exams. She was accepted at the Gymnasium in her sixth year of schooling and completed sixth and seventh year there. The sisters, who shared a room for those two years, were popular in the town as they were considered very pretty.
Gita left Lithuania around 1913 or 1914 for South Africa. She married Morris Aronowitz and had three daughters, Dora, Sylvia and Miriam. When her husband died, she remarried Sam Canter and had another daughter, Helen. She lived in Krugersdorp but later moved to Johannesburg. She migrated to Australia in 1965 when three of her daughters moved to Sydney and died in Sydney in 1974, aged 81.
During the Holocaust, both of Gita’s parents were murdered in the town of Zagare, as well as her nephews, Viktor and Azarye Lemchen.
The photograph includes Gita Lemchen (pictured far right, third row) and her sister Anna Lemchen (second left, bottom row). The Lemchen family were headed by Avraham and Rachel (Rocha) Lemchen. They lived in Papile, Lithuania, and had six children, of whom Gita was the eldest, born 3 November 1892, and Anna the second.
Gita was sent to school in Siauliai, the nearest large town. On her own in the town, she boarded with a different family while completing seven years at the high school. Anna stayed at home and had private lessons, travelling to Siauliai to complete her exams. She was accepted at the Gymnasium in her sixth year of schooling and completed sixth and seventh year there. The sisters, who shared a room for those two years, were popular in the town as they were considered very pretty.
Gita left Lithuania around 1913 or 1914 for South Africa. She married Morris Aronowitz and had three daughters, Dora, Sylvia and Miriam. When her husband died, she remarried Sam Canter and had another daughter, Helen. She lived in Krugersdorp but later moved to Johannesburg. She migrated to Australia in 1965 when three of her daughters moved to Sydney and died in Sydney in 1974, aged 81.
During the Holocaust, both of Gita’s parents were murdered in the town of Zagare, as well as her nephews, Viktor and Azarye Lemchen.
Место изготовленияLithuania
Дата 1911 - 1911
Наименованиеphotographs
Материалpaper, photographic emulsion, paper, paper
Размерность
- width: 540.00 mm
height: 420.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Rodney Freedman