Lodz, Poland, junction of Zgierska street and Limanowskiego street. The former headquarters of Gestapo and German authorities of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Gettoverwaltung). During the German occupation old part of Lodz - Baluty - was turned into enclosured and cut off Jewish quarter being in fact a small and independent slave labour camp. Most of the buildings of Litzmannstadt Ghetto remained and Baluty is still one of the poorest part of the city.
Camera: Samsung GX 10, lens Sigma 24-70mm F/1:2.8 EX DG, HDR
Kasprowy Wierch (Kasprowy’s Peak), Tatra Mountains, Poland. Meteo station on the top of the mountain. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70mm F 1:2.8 EX DG.
Autumn reminiscence, photo taken in the middle of last October, in Lodz in my vicinity. Camera: Samsung GX10, HDR.
One of the gravestones in the almost abandoned,not maintained and ovegrown part of the cemetery. The inscription on the stone is somehow symbolic due to the date of death - 1942. Amanda Fraenkel, as many other people, was trapped in the Litzmannstadt ghetto where she died. Her daugher or son erected a gravestone (probably soon after the burial). Did she or he (or they) survived? 45 thousands of Jews who died in the ghetto had been buried at the New Jewish Cemetery, in acordance to the Jewish religion at least. Today their greaves are more or less traceable and they are not anonymous. Those hundred thousands who were sent to the nazi-German death camps of Kulmhof and Auschwitz were turned to dust with no graves and nameless (SS kommando of Kulmhof ordered even special bone grinder to leave no traces of their genocide). Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, HDR, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com
