Nine photographs from Zhitomir, Ukraine. Unknown photographer, [1905].
1-4. Four photographs documenting the outcome of the Pogrom executed against the Jews of Zhitomir following the 1905 revolution. Three portray the interior of a demolished house and the fourth portrays the "Student Weinstein who was the first who fell in the war on the Podil in the Zhitomir Pogrom" (Leibush Ephraim ben Shlomo Weinstein).
5-8. Four photographs portraying groups of children and boys and Jewish families in Zhitomir.
9. Photograph portraying a bridge over one of the rivers of Zhitomir.
Average size: 12.5X17 cm. Good overall condition. All photographs are mounted on cardboard sheets, some of the sheets are cut on the photograph's edge. Creases and stains to cardboard sheets. Photograph of the pogrom's victim is titled by hand on the cardboard sheet.
Provenance: Collection of Ben Zion Kahana.