For more than 1,000 days, Russia has been inflicting war and terror on the people of Ukraine. All my friends there have suffered from this war in one way or another. Travelling in the country has become more complicated and yet I have been there four times since the beginning of the aggression – another trip is already planned. I have done what I have always done: I photographed Ukraine’s Jewish heritage – albeit to a lesser extent than was possible in the past. The pictures for the new Vanished World calendar for 2025 were taken on these trips. For me, this calendar is also something like a personal war diary. The print files in German and English are available for free download and can be used by anyone for non-commercial purposes.
Creative Commons License
The calendar is published under a Creative Commons license. You are free to print the calendar for privat purpose but you are not allowed to reproduce the images for commercial uses. Who makes changes to the calendar – translations into other languages or adding more holidays for example – has to make it available to others in the same way as I did.
Information on the license is available here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
If you feel confused regarding the license, please contact me!
Technical Specification
Pages: 13
File type: PDF
Resolution: 300 dpi
Color mode: CMYK
Page size: 600 x 426 mm
Size after trimming: 594 x 420 mm
It is a calendar for 12 months with a cover sheet in A2 size and file features as expected by most print shops. It makes sense to read the data sheets of on-line print shops and to make changes if necessary.
Where To Print?
Copy shops and on-line print shops offer economic processing of digital prints. A recommendation for Germany and Europe is https://www.wir-machen-druck.de. They print a calendar in A2 for about 10 euros. I am pleased when users share experiences with other print shops in your countries.
Download
Download the German version via Dropbox (PDF, 1,6 GB)
Download the English version via Dropbox (PDF, 1,6 GB)
Be patient. These are big files in high resolution print quality and they need time to download. Try again if Dropbox is over capacity. You do not need to register to Dropbox to download the files. Mind the download button, do not use the file preview to download.
I wish you a peaceful 2025!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Vanished World 
Your photos and stories are always fascinating and touching. So glad you are documenting as much as you can as our heritage slowly seems to vanish. I have family that came from Shpikov, Pilyava, and Lypovets in the Ukraine. I am very interested in anything you may have come across in those villages and towns, if you have visited. Thanks.
Alan Tabachnick
Maryland, USA
Dear Christian,
Sorry it took so long for me to send thisto you but here I am!
I got more wonderful comments about theVanishing World Calendar. Everyone saidthey had never seen anything like it. I didgive them a little history about your trips and perseverance. The following two comments are basically asummary of what was sent to me. (Not sure if I sent them to you already/sorryfor the repeat if I did):
Cora, such beautiful oldstructures/Vanished World. This is valued documentation and of course a sadcommentary.
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Cora, A noble endeavor. So good to know there are people in the worldlike Christian.
Be well Christian and keep going. Proud to know you.
Cora Schwartz
Thank you dear Cora! This is very touching!