Photograph of the Strashunski family
Photograph of Harvey Shonen’s maternal grandparents and of their five children, taken in 1923 according to Harvey. They changed their surname to Strauss in the US. Front row from left: Ethel Strauss, approximately 10 years old (married named Ethel Roifer); Bessie Strauss, a few months old (married name Bessie Bernstein; she is the only one of the five children born in the US); Benjamin Strauss, 50 years old. Standing from the left: Fred Strauss, 18 years old (his first name before emigration was Faivel); Sarah Strauss, Harvey’s mother, around 14 years old (she changed her first name to Shirley, and her married name was Shirley Sohnen); Philip Strauss, around 20 years old (called Fiszel before migraton); Hannah Strauss nee Ovseychik, around 40 years old.
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Harvey: This is the only photo of my grandparents together with all five of their children that we have, and it’s a wonderful photo. I laugh every time I see my mother’s hairdo as a 14 year old.
Incidentally, my grandmother, Hannah, sent a copy of this photo to her sister Ganessa who had moved from Oshmyany to Kungur, Russia. Ganessa’s granddaughter, who lives in Russia, has that copy.
