Sunday, September 03, 2006

Jewishness in Eastern Europe

There is still a Jewish presence in Eastern Europe. My favorite is the symbolism of the picture with Patricia.
Sofia, Bulagaria. Inside the synagogue that is in the center of town.


Sofia, Bulgaria. The same synagogue. It is a Sephardic synagogue.

Sofia, Bulgaria. Hebrew on a random car.


Budapest, Hungary. Synagogue.


Bratislava, Slovakia. There is a Jewish museum across the street.


Vienna, Austria. Judengasse (has a nice ring to it?). I believe there's a synagogue in the middle there.

Vienna, Austria. Judenplatz. The white box is the Holocaust memorial.

Warsaw, Poland. This is one of two buildings still standing from the former Jewish ghetto. Nazis used to torture people in that building. Patricia, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, now takes her psychology classes there.

Warsaw, Poland. The memorial for the ghetto uprisers.

3 comments:

AnonymousBlogger said...

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

It's so easy to forget about the great historical sites scattered throughout Europe. I kind of wish we had some in North America, but then we'd just tear them down and build a strip mall or some shit like that.

knibilnats said...

Hahaha, very true. But as long as there's a Taco Bell in the strip mall, it's ok with me! Who needs "history" anyway

knibilnats said...

i hope you have fun matt!!!