Young men posing on a boat

High school students on a boat trip

Gdańsk, Poland, 1937. Students Sailing

Students from the Zygmunt August High School in Vilna pose on a boat at the mouth of the Vistula River in Gdańsk, Poland. Among them is Alexander Sedlis, the son of prominent Jewish doctor Elias Sedlis.

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