Prewar Suchostaw

Prewar Suchostaw 

Suchostaw (Suchastov) in the 1930s and 1940s filmed by Nathan Okon. Mr. Okon had a wholesale fur business and would visit relatives in his hometown (Zborow) and his wife’s hometown (Suchostaw) during business trips to Europe in the 1930s.These are the only known films of these Jewish communities, which were almost entirely destroyed during the Holocaust, and the Landsmanshaften. 

Refer to MJH sound documentation videotape describing the activity and people appearing in the films.