Narew River,
northern upriver view
from the former Gostkowski farm
in Witkowo-Wizna
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View of the former Gostkowski
farm
in Witkowo-Wizna
from
the
Narew River shore
[View towards the
west] |
Neighboring
farm houses of
the former Gostkowski farm
in Witkowo-Wizna |
Yeheskel
Zilberstein, son of
Rywka (nee Gostkowski) and
Yehuda Zilbersztejn,
standing in front
of a former Gostkowski property,
possibly Yankel
Gostkowski's
[Narew, northern upriver view] |
Close-up view of an
old house
on the former Gostkowski farm,
in Witkowo-Wizna |
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Old cow shed on the former
Gostkowski farm in Witkowo-Wizna |
Yeheskel
Zilberstein sitting on
the
Gostkowski shore of the
Narew River
in
Witkowo-Wizna
[Narew, northern upriver view] |
Amnon Even-Kesef on
the famous
Narew River dinghy, in Witkowo-Wizna |
Yeheskel
Zilberstein, standing on
the Gostkowski shore of the
Narew River
in
Witkowo-Wizna
[Narew downriver view,
south towards Wizna] |
A fisherman on the
Narew River
near the former Gostkowski farm |
Entrance to the remains of the
Wizna Jewish Cemetery,
located
north
of
Witkowo, about 200 yards
from
the bridge to Bialystok,
on the
unpaved road
along the river
to the small town of Rus
|
Bucolic scene of the area near the
Narew River in the former Gostkowski
farm
in Witkowo-Wizna. The forest across
the river did not exist during the years
that Rywka Gostkowska and her siblings
lived in Wizna. |
[L-R]: Cheslaw Baginski, 88, former neighbor
of the Gostkowski family in Witkowo, still
remembers Abram and Itzchak Gostkowski;
Amnon Even-Kesef (Zilberstein),
son of Rywka (nee Gostkowski) and Yehuda Zilbersztejn; Eugenia Dobrowska,
88-90,
remembers the Gostkowski family. |
[L-R]: Cheslaw Baginski, former Gostkowski neighbor in Witkowo; Amnon
Even-Kesef;
Josef Koschewski, present resident
of the former Gostkowski farm in Witkowo.
Amnon is holding a home made Vodka bottle,
a present given
by Josef Koschewski,
the maker of this Vodka |
[L-R]: Kazimier Abramowitz, about 90,
who also remembers the Gostkowskis;
Yeheskel Zilberstein.
Background: Wizna Rynek, near the
monument to the Polish soldiers who
lost
their lives in WWI and WWII,
[shown top right] |
Wizna Civic
Center
[L-R]: fire department, public library |
Wizna Civic Center
[Red house on the right]: former
home
of Rywka Czapnicka,
who lives
in Tel Aviv, Israel now |
[L-R]: Zamkowa
restaurant,
Wizna City Hall |
[Red house]: grocery store
(maybe the former grocery store of
Chana Rywka (nee Gostkowski) Liberman,
known as "gote neshome," wife of Leibke Liberman, sister of Eli Avraham
Gostkowski)
[Yellow house]: Wizna bakery
(maybe the former Guzikiewicz bakery)
|
Wizna Rynek on the left
[Yellow house]: the bakery, (maybe the
former site of the Guzikiewicz bakery)
This road leads north towards
the Wizna church and on to the
unpaved road to Witkowo. |
[Red house]: Israel Lewin's former home,
one of the few homes that survived
WWII bombing of the Rynek area;
[White house]: Wizna post office |
The Wizna drugstore (Apteka)
next to the civic center and
Rynek,
on the street that leads to Witkowo,
opposite the Wizna high school |
View of the east
side of the park
in Wizna's Rynek |
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