This is such an interesting place. What is it's history?
Lovely pictures. I would love to see more. Not for stock reasons either.

Thanks
Maurine

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The jewish cemetary was established a very long time ago (which is why it's so crowded) - I believe that they were given a separate place from the christians for the usual religion reasons. Most of the tombstones that have readable dates were from the 1800-1930 period and they suddenly stop after the 1930's when the nazis wiped out the jewish population. Under soviet rule the cemetary was pretty much left to grow wild - the soviets were pretty antisemetic, too - and it's slowly coming back under maintenance now.

I'm not superstitious but it was a very creepy place to wander around in. It's a huge space and it's just jammed with trees, tombstones, and little weedy paths. I went there specifically to shoot some photos for stock because I know there are a lot of goths on DA.

The toughest part of the whole place, for me, was a little memorial building near the entrance with a sign saying "this memorial is to the 1,000,000 jewish children murdered by nazi barbarians" and the whole memorial was covered with little photographs of kids that people had brought and sandwiched between pieces of glass, and glued and cemented to its walls. Seeing all the photos of kids - smiling, playing, posing - and knowing that they had been loved by their parents but brutally murdered - all these little pictures, rotting from rain and moisture - it was pretty intense. I left the place very sad, angry, and depressed.

My father was in the CID and stationed in Germany in the fifties. There was rubble left over from the war and in my 'child logic' at that time was all Jews were children.

Beautifull photos. Thanks.
MO

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This is a wonderful photo!

Thank you so much for the background. It helps me a great deal to know something about the image I'm working with. (It makes it more fun, anyway!) I wish all stock had at least some comment with it!

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beautiful picture...love it <3

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Wow. Amazing! In Poland? I live in Poland and I didn't know, that we have got cemetaries like it.

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Yes, in Warsaw.

Really great work! You showed me something, about I didn't known!

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