The photo exhibition by Wojciech Wilczyk gave me a good pretext to visit Warsaw. Warsaw, the city that was completely destroyed. Warsaw, the city that resurrected. What gives people the strenght to build a new city upon ruins? My father was in Warsaw when the city went up in flames and was blown up block by block. He was a soldier of the German Wehrmacht, and his unit was in the city during the Warsaw Uprising. He never talked about the war, and I’ll never know what he did. How could he live with the destruction of Warsaw? And how can I?
Warsaw – Ghetto memorial and Jewish Museum
Warsaw – Jewish Museum
Warsaw – Jewish Museum
Warsaw – “Umschlagplatz”
Warsaw – Brodno Jewish cemetery
Warsaw – Brodno Jewish cemetery
Warsaw – Brodno Jewish cemetery
Warsaw – Brodno Jewish cemetery
Warsaw – Brodno Jewish cemetery
Warsaw – former mikvah
Warsaw – trace of a mezuzah
Warsaw – trace of a mezuzah
Warsaw – Praga backyard
Warsaw – shop sign of a Jewish tailor in Praga
Warsaw – “I miss you, Jew!”
Warsaw – mural in a former prayer house, now a museum
Warsaw – Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street
Warsaw – Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street – grave of a Warsaw uprising fighter
Warsaw – Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street
Warsaw – Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street – memorial for murdered children
Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street
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