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“The living faith has vanished. . . . All that remains is poetry!” A superficial observer of life in the ghetto might come to more or less the same conclusion about the way…
Contributor:
Oskar Rosenfeld
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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This Hanukkah lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)
Date:
17th Century
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The Holy Fire, one of the greatest examples of religious resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, explores a theological explanation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.
Contributor:
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Places:
Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942