The display includes photographs of synagogues from 67 towns, cemeteries from 30 towns, and 8 ohels of the tzaddikim. The exhibit is a reminder of Jewish sites forgotten or neglected, which need to be rediscovered. It elucidates symbolic meaning of Jewish decorations and traditional synagogal architecture. Watchers are given opportunity to see in detail what they could pass unaware while walking by. Their interest in these stone remnants of Jewish culture can be rekindled.
The exhibit was shown in Germany, including Munich. The authors, Reverend Gunter Kuhn with his wife Gerda, have compiled the effects of several years of their quest for the traces of Jewish culture in South-East Poland.
Authors (curators): Gerda and Gunter Kuhn
Object: photographs
Number of objects: 80
Sizes: 57x74 , 30x40
Frames: clip frames
Area requirenments: negotiable
Captions: German and Polish
Transport: the borrower covers the costs of transportation and packing, clip frames are in 8 wooden boxes
Poster - a map: opening text in German (4 pages) on cardboard
Education activities: lectures on Matzevah Symbolic Decorations, on Epitaphs, on Hasids in Poland with music
More info: available classes on the preservation of Jewish cemeteries, marking the burial sites, reading of messages "coded" in stone on matzevahs
