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The Jewish cemetery in Lodz, 4


The Jewish cemetery in Lodz, 4
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Copyright: Maciej Kaluzynski (Kaluzynski) Silver Note Writer [C: 6 W: 0 N: 14] (166)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005
Categories: Ruins
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/400 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-04-23 19:07
Viewed: 331
Points: 2
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The cemetery was founded in 1892 and it is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe.

During the 100 years of the cemetery's history many meritorious people like rabbis, teachers, industrialists, doctors, politicians, social activists etc. were buried there. Their grave stones are mostly masterpieces of blacksmiths and stonecutters art.

In the cemetery are buried also the victims of one of the most tragic events in mankind history – the Holocaust. There are about 43 000 people buried in the part of the cemetery called Ghetto Field.

Many of those interred were victims of starvation, cold and disease (especially typhus); they included Jews from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg, who were transported to the ghetto in 1941, as well as Roma (Gypsies) who died in the Gypsy Camp in the ghetto. The cemetery was the site of mass executions of Jews, Roma and non-Jewish Poles: the graves of the Polish scouts and soldiers of the Home Army are found there.

After the ghetto was liquidated in August 1944, about 830 Jews were left as a clean-up crew. They were forced to dig large holes for their own graves near the cemetery wall. The Nazis did not have enough time to kill them, and the empty holes have been left as a remembrance.
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Hi Maciej,

Excellent effect, which righlight well the graves frame and pass an ideia of entering on a time tunel. Tragic story.

Regards,

Flavia

A beautifull effect. do you mind sharing with me how you managed to bring in this effect?

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