The gravestones (macews) covered by the ivy at the New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz - the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, HDR, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com
The gravestones (macews) covered by the ivy at the New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz - the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, HDR, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com
A beautiful picture of the old cemetery, where I found my grand-fathers monument. I left a stone on his grave, in Jewish tradition it is a trace of your presence at his grave side. He died before I was born and I rarely thought about him, but now I feel a closeness to my ancestor Abraham- Avigdor Herszenberg as if I knew him. His wife, my grand-mother died of starvation in 1941 in Lodz-ghetto. The cemetery was vandalized after the war for many reasons: antisemitism and even more for profit. The marble was sold, but my grandfather, a poor man had a cheap made of granit and sand monument. As you can see one have to be lucky even while dead.