CHANNA LEMELMAN AND HER FRIENDS
Gol'shany, Belarus
cir 1923
The girl sitting on the ground at left was Channa Matle
Lemelman. The other girls are unknown. Channa moved with her
family to New York in 1923 and became Anna Land. She eventually
married Morris Siegel and had a son named Hal. Anna died at the
age of twenty-nine in 1936 of a burst appendix. Baby Hal was
just ten weeks old at the time. This photo was probably taken
before Anna left for America in 1923. She would have been about
seventeen years old.
THE LEMELMAN FAMILY
Gol'shany, Poland
cir 1919
This second photo is of the Lemelman family in front of their
home in Olszany circa 1919. From left: Motel, Julius, Elka,
Golda, Chasha, Nochim (he was a watchmaker), Channa (the same
girl in the other photo) and Dworja. Two children are missing
from the photo: Natan and Hinda, who had already immigrated to
America. All but Julius immigrated to New York in 1923. Family
stories say that Julius was shot and killed by a Russian
soldier for speaking out.
