When in Poland we visited the Jewish Galacia Museum. There was an exhibition called 'Traces of Memory' which featured photographs by Chris Schwarz. I loved how this exhibition was curated, the layout the presentation and display and importantly the content. This photograph really stood out for me. The photography exhibition attempted to piece together the remains of an entire culture and religion almost wiped out. How time has passed and significant buildings, traditions and Jewish memories are slowly erased. The photograph below is a Lion of Judah it appears at the entrance of an abandoned synagogue in Poland. The painting of a lion was a symbol of the ideal that Jews should be as strong as lions. Full of meaning, irony and memory the photograph really communicated this erasure of Jewish culture. There are hundreds of disused and abandoned synagogues across Poland.
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