http://www.kozerawski.com/2008/11/13/the-new-jewish-cemetery-in-lodz-part-2/ Mon, 21 May 2012 19:13:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.kozerawski.com/2008/11/13/the-new-jewish-cemetery-in-lodz-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-789 salomea kape Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:58:12 +0000 http://www.kozerawski.com/2008/11/13/the-new-jewish-cemetery-in-lodz-part-2/#comment-789 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. 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.

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