Chuck Fishman: Polish Jews Limited Edition Portfolio
Chuck Fishman: Polish Jews Limited Edition Portfolio
83 year-old Dr. Hieronim Krug, oldest living advocate in Krakow. Golda Zeiden and daughter Regina in Wroclaw's only remaining prayer room. Both survived Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Maurice Koszmar, Auschwitz survivor. All who reached the camp alive, and not immediately led to the gas chambers, were numbered. Singing the Yiddish song, 'Who Will Say Kaddish* For Me?" 76 year-old Max Ramenstein of Przemysl bemoans his fate. There are approximately 50 Jews left in Przemsyl. In 1939 there were about 20,000. *(Kaddish is the prayer of remembrance for the dead.) Moshe Shapiro, of Warsaw's kosher kitchen, washing meat. Shapiro is the kitchen's ritual slaughterer and sees to the cleanliness of both the food and kitchen according to Jewish law. Money for the food and operation of the kitchen comes from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Chess players at the Jewish Club in Lodz. At the outbreak of WW II, one-third of the city (230,000) were Jewish. Now (1975) approximately 500 are left. Some gathering here to socialize, watch television, play cards... The mural, done in 1960, by Adam (Aron) Muszka, depicts the holocaust. Vandalized tomb in Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw. It was believed by the local people that, when buried, Jews hide gold with the corpse. Awaiting Friday night services in the courtyard of Krakow's Remu synagogue. The Remu is the oldest Polish synagogue still in use. Services are held twice weekly. Abraham Fogel, the reader, at Krakow's Remu synagogue. The last of the rabbis fled in 1968. Men at Friday night services. Services are not only a means of prayer, but also of socializing. Auschwitz Memorial built at site of the gas chambers at Treblinka Concentration Camp. Engraved in rock is the statement "NEVER AGAIN" in Polish, Yiddish, Russian, English, French and German. Building at Majdanek Concentration Camp. The camp was established July 21, 1941 and was used until liberated by advancing Soviet troops July 24, 1944. In 1947 it became a national museum. Majdanek Concentration Camp. Situated on the outskirts of Lublin, the camp has most of its original buildings, etc. remaining intact. The camp/museum is open to the public. The ovens of Majdanek. It was here that all dead bodies (exterminated, undernourished...) were burned. Approximately 125,000 Jews were killed at Majdanek. Impoverished Jew outside Warsaw's kosher kitchen. 72 year-old Apolonia Rzymowska in her garden. Rzymowska, a Polish Gentile, saved lives by feeding Jews hiding in the forests around her home in Kock. Chaim Elia Leder in his room in Lublin. Leder receives a small monthly pension from the government and tries to supplement his income by sewing. He is one of approximately 30 Jews remaining in Lublin. In 1941 there were 45,000. Robin Dawidowicz, the last Jew of Lublin's once Jewish market, and wife at work selling doughnuts. His wife, a Christian, had recently been beaten up and called a Jewish whore. They had been married for 4 months. Dawidowicz endured Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria during the war. Researchers at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Scholarly works regarding Jewish culture, history, etc. are still being written here. Pictures on the wall are (left - right) Shalom Aleichem (writer), Isaac Peretz (writer), Dr. Meir Balaban (historian of Polish Jewry, died in the Warsaw ghetto, 1942), and Professor Ber Mark (historian and director of the institute until his death in 1966). The building contains rare books, paintings, photographs and various paraphernalia retained from the Holocaust. Mieczyslav Nusbaum, sexton of Lublin's only remaining prayer room. Nusbaum, whose wife and children are living in Israel, sleeps in a small adjoining room. He cannot travel because of a bad heart. The room is still being used for Friday night services. Pincus Szenicer, caretaker of Warsaw's Jewish Cemetery, reciting psalms for a recently deceased woman. She was 74. Pincus Szenicer reciting Safer Tehillim (Book of Psalms). Mosses Lekker, caretaker of the Jewish Cemetery, Lodz. <br /><br /><br /> <strong><a href="/content.html?page=3">continue</a></strong>
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