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(SCHNEERSON FAMILY). FOUR  Original portrait family photographs. Sent by REBBETZIN CHAYA MUSHKA (MOUSSIA) SCHNEERSON and her sister Chana Schneerson (Gurary) to their close friend Necha (Nate) Rivkin of Jerusalem. VERSO OF EACH PHOTOGRAPH WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTIONS BY THE SCHNEERSON SISTERS in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian. Short tears and old tape repairs. * I: PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF REBBETZIN CHAYA MUSHKA SCHNEERSON ON HER WEDDING DAY.  Verso inscribed by the Rebbetzin: “27.xi.1928, Warsaw.” This date was equivalent to the 14th of Kislev, the wedding date of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (to be) and his Rebbetzin (and third cousin) Chaya Mushka. * II:   PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF REBBETZIN CHAYA MUSHKA SCHNEERSON ON HER WEDDING DAY taken at the studio Atelier Alfred Pole in Riga. Verso inscribed by the Rebbetzin in Russian: “To Nate…” Dated 26. xi. 1928, Warsaw. THIS WAS THE DAY PRIOR TO HER WEDDING TO THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE (to be). * III:   PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE OLDER AND YOUNGER SISTERS OF REBBETZIN CHAYA MUSHKA SCHNEERSON: Chana (standing) alongside Sheina (Sheindele / Sonja). Verso with identifying inscriptions in Hebrew and Russian. Sheindel Schneerson (1904-42) married Menachem Mendel (“Menik”) Horenstein in 1932. She and her husband were both murdered by the Nazis in the Treblinka extermination camp. They had no children. Sheindel was particularly close to her sister Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia and is memorialized on the latter’s tombstone in the Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York. Chana Schneerson (1899-1991) married Shmaryahu Gourary (the Rasha’g), they had one child (see next photograph). * IV:   PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF SHOLOM DOV BER (BERKE / BARRY) GURARY (1923-2005).  Verso with Russian autograph inscription by his mother, Chana Schneerson, dated Leningrad, 11th November, 192(5?). The only grandchild of the Lubavitcher Rebbe R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (1880-1950), Barry Gurary was born in February, 1923, in Rostov-on-Don, the hometown of his great-grandfather, R. Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson (1860-1920). Following the death of Vladimir Lenin, St. Petersburg (Petrograd) was renamed Leningrad in January 1924. The child in the photograph appears to be two years old. As per tradition, his hair remained uncut until aged three. It was common in Russia of that time for boys to wear a bow in their hair, giving them the appearance of a girl.