...And I Still See Their Faces
Images of Polish Jews
This is a special exhibition available on-line. 455 old photographs saved from the oblivion, found in atics, in deserted empty houses, empty of their previously Jewish owners, in a country without Jews, in Poland.
Each picture tears you apart. Each picture penetrates the heart. There is the whole univers behind each name, behind each image, story of hopes, struggle, death...
My late parents left me hundreds of similar pictures from their youth and their hometown Gombin. They kept it in a black old wooden box, which was always cherished like a hidden treasure. It contained pieces of their souls, their memories, their longings, their endless pain...
So all of a sudden I found on the web hundreds of similar photographs.
Every picture is another brick in a fantastic virtual Monument of commemoration of that grand Jewery who was destroyed and liquidated in our times.
Each picture and its unique story. And sometimes, what is not told has more significance than word themselves... May be someone will recognize an image? Everyone still has hidden hopes to find traces of their family members, and these rare pictures may be the only trace of a person, a family, a community...
There is
an index of all the persons mentioned in the album. But there is no index of the places, of all those hometowns of our fathers and mothers. How can we remember what we have never seen? What the eye sees equals to thousand words... So I decided to create the index of the places mentioned in the photographs.Ada Holtzman
This is a photograph of my father, Meir Holtzman, together with the children of his brothers and sisters, taken in 1939, a short time before he left with my mother to Eretz Israel.
Town |
Picture Numbers |
Odra River |
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Ohlau |
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Ojców |
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Olawa |
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Olkusz |
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Opatów |
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Oswiecim |
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Otwock |
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Ozarów |
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Pakose |
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Paris |
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Piaski |
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Pinczów |
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Pinsk |
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Pionki |
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Plock |
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Podgórze |
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Poniatowa |
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Powiercie |
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Poznan |
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Przemysl |
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Przeworsk |
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Pulawy |
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Radom |
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Radomsko |
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Radwan |
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Rokitno Wolyfiskie |
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Równe |
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Sambor |
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Sandomierz |
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Sanok |
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Siedlce |
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Siemiatycze |
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Skala |
081, 082, 083, 137, 142, 199, 208, 209, 314, 372, 373, 375, 383, 442, 445 |
Skalmierzyce Nowe |
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Skryhiczyn on the Bug |
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Sophców |
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Sopot |
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Sowiniec |
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Spassk (Ryazan' Oblast USSR) |
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Stawiski |
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Stezyce |
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Strusów |
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Suwalki |
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Szczecin |
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Szczekociny |
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Szczerców |
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Szydlów |
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Szydlowiec |
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Tarlów |
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Tarnobrzeg |
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Tarnopol |
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Tarnów |
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Tashkent, USSR |
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Teheran |
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Tomaszów Lubelski |
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Truskawiec |
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Tuszyn |
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Udmurt Autonomous Republic |
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Urzedów |
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Uznam |
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Vienna |
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Vilnius |
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Voronezh |
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Wadowice |
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Walbrzych |
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Wapienna |
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Warsaw |
041, 046, 058, 072, 094, 095, 096, 116, 140, 151, 152, 156, 159, 165, 166, 173, 180, 181, 186, 187, 188, 205, 210, 211, 234, 246, 248, 257, 309, 311, 325, 326, 330, 331, 345, 346, 355, 359, 363, 367, 374, 385, 386, 387, 392, 393, 400, 401, 408, 417, 419, 422, 430, 431, 441, 453, 454 |
Wieliczka |
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Wierzbnik |
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Wisniowa Góra |
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Wloclawek |
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Wlodawa on the Bug |
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Wodzislaw Kielecki |
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Wroclaw |
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Zakopane |
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Zakrzówek |
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Zaleszczyki |
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Zawiercie |
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Zdunska Wola |
001, 009, 017, 036, 057, 099, 100, 107, 115, 133, 136, 157, 168, 176, 184, 337, 342, 347, 377, 389, 449 |
Zloczów |
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Zofiówka |
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Zurich |
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