Vanished World 2021 Calendar For Free Download

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Christian Herrmann under Belarus, Media

Considering the past year, I assume we all deserve a small gift. I would like to give a gift to all who followed my trips through Eastern Europe’s Jewish past and present. A calendar for 2021 with some of my photos is now available for free download. In solidarity with the brave Belarusians who fight a terrorist dictatorship, I was using exclusively photo motifs from Belarus for this year’s calendar. They were taken in spring 2019 – a time when traveling was still possible and nobody thought of a pandemic to come. The images may remind us how much Belarus is part of a European and global culture.

Vanished World calendar 2021

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Media coverage of my new book, an award and more exhibitions

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Christian Herrmann under Exhibition, Media

A lot happened since my last post in July. On 4 September, my new book “In Fading Light. Traces of Jewish Life in the East of Europe” was released. Since then, the book was kindly recepted by the media. And there was more: On 2 September, I was awarded with a “Key to the City” in Lviv. Bookstore and gallery Böttger exhibits a selection of my photos in Bonn and there are plans for a bigger exhibition in Augsburg.

Cover “In Fading Light”

In Fading Light

Jüdische Allgemeine, print edition

Screenshot “NDR”

Screenshot “Der Spiegel”

“Key to the City”, photo: Jay Osborn

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“In Fading Light” will be released in September

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Christian Herrmann under Media

Next week, I will fly to Warsaw to be there when my new book will be printed. The book is the essence of years of travelling in Eastern Europe and of trying to find and document what is still visible of the Jewish heritage.

Cover “In Fading Light”

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“Remembrance and Oblivion” Photo Exhibition Opened in the City of Bochum

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Exhibition

Olena Petrenko’s students of Bochum University – Nina, Judith, Patrik, Sebastian, Bea and Thorben – organised a wonderful exhibition opening with a selection of my photos at Kunsthallen Rottstraße 5 in Bochum last night. Thank you all for keeping the memory of Jewish Eastern Europe alive!

Bochum exhibition opening

Bochum exhibition opening – the organisers team

Bochum exhibition opening

Bochum exhibition opening – Edgar Hauster speaking

Bochum exhibition opening – Sebastian Döpp speaking

Bochum exhibition opening – Judith Brinkmann speaking

Bochum exhibition opening – Olena Petrenko speaking

Bochum exhibition opening

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Vanished World 2018 Calendar For Free Download

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Media

December is coming closer and with all its holidays it’s for many of us a time of gifts. I would like to give a present to all who accompanied my trips through Eastern Europe’s Jewish past and present – either in person or by following my experiences through the Vanished World blog or social media. A calendar for 2018 with some of my photos is available now for free download, consisting of photos from Jewish heritage sites in Ukraine, Moldova and Poland. You may produce it on your own printer or at an on-line shop of your choice. Enjoy and have a great 2018!

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Working on a new Book

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Media

Because I have not published anything on Vanished World since July, there were already worried inquiries whether I’m fine. Yes, I’m fine and I’m working on a new photo book on Eastern Europe’s remaining Jewish heritage – mainly consisting of images from Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Poland. The result of countless trips. Have a first look in!

Alexandreni Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Bălţi Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Berezhany Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Bibrka synagogue, Ukraine

Botoșani synagogue, Romania

Bratslav synagogue, Ukraine

Busk synagogue, Ukraine

Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Chernivtsi Temple Synagogue, Ukraine

Chişinău Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Chortkiv New Synagogue, Ukraine

Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Horodenka synagogue, Ukraine

Itcani Jewish cemetery, Romania

Karczew Jewish cemetery, Poland

Krakow Jewish cemetery next to Remuh Synagogue, Poland

Płaszów concentration camp site, Poland

Lutsk synagogue, Ukraine

Trace of a mezuzah in Lviv, Ukraine

Mărculeşti Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Orhei Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Pidhaitsi Jewish quarter, Ukraine

Trace of a mezuzah in Pidhaitsi, Ukraine

Pidhaitsi synagogue, Ukraine

Probizhna synagogue, Ukraine

Raşcov synagogue, “Transnistria” in Moldova

Rezina Jewish cemetery, Moldova

Mass grave site in Rohatyn, Ukraine

Rozdil synagogue, Ukraine

Soroca synagogue, Moldova

Staryi Sambir Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Stryi synagogue, Ukraine

Stryi, former Jewish quarter, Ukraine

Trace of a mezuzah in Stryi, former Jewish quarter, Ukraine

Stryi, former Jewish cemetery, Ukraine

Former Jewish shop in Tirgul Vertiujeni, Moldova

Memorial for the murdered Jews of Trochenbrod, Ukraine

Bródno Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Poland

Trace of a mezuzah in Warsaw, Poland

Zguriţa Jewish cemetery, Moldova

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Five Days in Galicia in Black and White

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues

It was a short trip of only five days in April when my friends Marla, Jay, Vasyl, Alex and I traveled in Lviv and Ternopil region in Galicia, Ukraine. An intense trip to explore what is left of the Jewish heritage. As always I had two cameras with me – a digital one for colour photographs and an analogue one for black and white. Analogue photography is a slow business, but finally here is now a selection of what I got: synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the towns of Berezhany, Budaniv, Drohobych, Husiatyn, Korolivka, Monastyryska, Pidhaitsi and Sataniv.

Berezhany Jewish cemetery

Budaniv synagogue

Drohobych synagogue – recently renovated

Husiatyn synagogue

Korolivka Jewish cemetery

Monastyryska synagogue

Pidhaitsi synagogue

Pidhaitsi Jewish cemetery

Sataniv Jewish cemetery

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“The Search for Traces” on Exhibit in Berlin

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Exhibition

Since May 7, Stillpoint Spaces in Berlin’s district Neukölln hosts an exhibition of my analogue black and white photos. They document Jewish heritage sites in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Poland. The exhibition will be accessible until end of July. If you are around, come in!

Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin

Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin – Jakob Lusensky speaking

Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin

Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin – Adam Kerpel-Fronius speaking

Exhibition opening at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin

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Between Berlin and Rozdil

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Central Europe, Eastern Galicia, Jewish Cemeteries, Mazovia, Synagogues

I traveled in Ukraine in December, visited Berlin’s Weißensee Jewish cemetery in January, have been to Warsaw and its neighbouring towns of Karczew and Otwock in February. Finally, I had time to edit some of the analogue black and whites from these trips. Here they are…

Berlin Weißensee, Jewish cemetery

Bródno Jewish cemetery, Warsaw

Karczew Jewish cemetery, south of Warsaw

Otwock Jewish cemetery, south of Warsaw

Rozdil synagogue, Galicia, Ukraine

Rozdil Jewish cemetery, Galicia, Ukraine

Shchyrets Jewish cemetery, Galicia, Ukraine

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“Present, Absent – Jewish Heritage in Eastern Europe” Photo Exhibition Opened in Berlin

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Christian Herrmann under Exhibition

So far, I exclusively exhibited black and white photos. For the first time, the show in Auferstehungskirche in Berlin’s district Friedrichshain assembles some of my colour photos. Places do not only have a past, they also have a present. Colour photography may express this better.