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This watercolor sketch of uprooted Jews arriving in the Warsaw Ghetto was one of many artworks Rynecki made while incarcerated there. Before the war, many of his paintings documented the vibrancy of…
Contributor:
Moshe Rynecki
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1939
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Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…
Contributor:
Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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This alms box was affixed to the wall in the Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bóżnica) of Kraków, located in the Kazimierz district of the city. Because it was in a part of the Polish-Lithuanian…
Contributor:
Matteo Gucci
Places:
Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1569–70