Photo exhibition on "Pictures of Polish Jews"

The exhibition "Pictures of Polish Jews – I can still see their faces" will be shown at the opening of the Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture. The exhibition, organised by the Shalom Foundation, has been touring Europe, America and Israel for the last ten years. Dorota Jarecka says it's well worth a visit. "In 1994 Golda Tencer (head of the Foundation and director of the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw), called on Poles to send in their pre-war pictures of Polish Jews to the Foundation. The result exceeded all expectations with 9,000 pictures sent in. They show quiet everyday life, school, and work. Many photos were taken in professional studios, some outdoors or at home. All the pictures, including those from before the war, speak of the Holocaust. Where possible, they are labelled with a name or accompanied by a short history of the person in the photo, or of the person who took the photo or kept it safe. Most of them are portraits of people who were murdered in the Holocaust. This exhibition is a collection of memory."

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