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On the Gesia, Szeroka, Mila Street
Everyday life
050 Lublin, at the time of the War. |
"This photograph was taken by a German soldier who had it developed at a Polish photoshop. It was stolen by one of the employees, and kept for years by my husband, who has already died." Wanda Wisniewska, Wroclaw
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051 A street in Tamw before the War. |
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052 Lowicz, the synagogue built in 1877 on Zdunska Street, which was totally destroyed during the War. |
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053 Ark in the 18th-century synagogue in Kurw, destroyed during the War. |
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"For centuries the whisper of those prayers ascended to heaven - it has stopped now. Will it ever be heard again? "And was it an alien hope that sounded there, or our own?"
Stanislaw Vincenz, "Jewish subjects" |
054 The l7th-century synagogue in Przeworsk, completely destroyed during the War. Photograph from 1934. |
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055 The funeral of a Zionist activist, probably in Pulawy. |
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 056 A funeral, probably in Pulawy. "After washing, the body was wrapped in a sheet and put in a hearse, a kind of a stretcher, tied with ribbons, with no use of nails. It was carried by four Jews, who were specially employed for this. After them, there walked the family and a professional mourner or two. The rabbi did not go along in the procession, only the kahal official, who quickly sang under his breath. "And on the whole, the procession was going to the cemetery with great haste as if they were in a hurry to bury the body." From the annals of Tomaszw Lubelski written by Jan Mazurek |
057 A family at the grave on the anniversary of death of their relative. Print from a glass plate found in Zdunska Wola. |
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058 Digging of the grave for the victims of a 1946 pogrom. |
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"In 1946, I was going from Szczecin to Warsaw. On the way, Poles stopped the train. They took out the Jews and killed them, cursing and mocking them. The grave for the four Jews was dug after the bandits had left." Malka Kurik, Montevideo |
| I liked very much to go to the fair with my mother. My sister and I had to come over to the calliope player, who had a parrot that drew a prize for us - a ring or a brooch. The market square was surrounded mostly by Jewish houses. When we walked by the stores of Zalcman, Cyrnerman, or others, they greeted us kindly and invited us in to shop.
"My father, a butcher, worked with Jews, Fiszman and Sztadler, among others. When the Ruskies marched in, on September 17, 1939, our entire family was on the list of those to be taken to Siberia, because of my father's military Cross of Valor. Only thanks to some influential Jew, were we crossed off of that list. That which happened after the Germans had invaded in 1941, still haunts me to this day. One sunny morning, the market square became the site of the mass murder of the Jews. Those who tried to escape were caught and locked in the synagogue, then taken away to Sarny. A few hid in the woods and sometimes visited us at night." Antonina Chrupala, Wolczyn
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059 A fair in Rokitno Wolyfiskie in the interwar period. A synagogue can be seen in the background. |
 060 I send you a photograph found among keepsakes Ieft by my uncle, an amateur photographer. I suppose this picture might come from Vilnius, where my uncle lived before the War."
Emil Mieszkowski, Warsaw |
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