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.

2024 is already the third year of the war against Ukraine. Russia’s barbaric aggression continues. With this calendar, I would like to remind you that people are still dying every day in Ukraine, cities are being destroyed and the country’s cultural heritage is being devastated – even if the war has disappeared from the headlines or is overshadowed in the public consciousness by other wars and conflicts.
The calendar can be downloaded free of charge and contains the main Christian and Jewish holidays in a German and English edition. Most of the pictures were taken while travelling in Western Ukraine in December 2022 and July 2023.