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Other side of the Torah
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A street in Kazimierz, Krakow. Photo by evasik.
Date: 09 September 2012
A new
exhibition “On the Other Side of the Torah” is opening at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, showing from September 6th to November 6th.
The
exhibition is centered around two unusual relics from the Second World War,
recently discovered in the town of Tübingen, Germany: portraits of a uniformed
Wehrmacht soldier and of his wife, both images painted on the back of Torah
scrolls. The exhibition will be the first time that these objects have been
exhibited since their discovery in Tübingen in 2010, and the first exhibition
of its kind ever held in Poland.
In
addition to key informational texts and translations of the Torah fragments in
English, Polish and German, the exhibition features audio and video commentary
from a range of perspectives, communities, nationalities and age groups––Jews,
Catholics, Protestants, secular humanists, Poles, Germans, Americans, Israelis,
old and young, Holocaust survivors, a rabbi and seminary student, artist and
journalist.
The
Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to
celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from
a new perspective.
Located
in the heart of Kazimierz, Kraków’s Jewish quarter. One of Poland’s most
visited Jewish museums and cultural centres
For more
information on the exhibit visit:
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