The photograph shows the tombstones – “macewa” [Jewish tombstones]. The cemetery is not fenced. On the right side there is a small brick building. In the center of the picture, between the tombstones you can see a tent and two soldiers sitting in front of it on the grass. Among the graves grow a few trees ; The author of the photograph was the father of the photo owner. He was an engineer - building roads and bridges (a specialization in the former KK Austria), Mikołaj Bogdanowicz. During the 1st World War, as a native of Galicia, he was appointed to the Austrian army. In this army he was the commander of three companies of engineers, one of whom was Jewish company. The area of its operation was Volhynia and partially Podolia, where during many months of "stopping" of the front he was building trenches, roads, bridges, etc. ; the period of the 1st World War, around Rivne (Volhynia, now Ukraine) ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)
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[Bogdanowicz, Mikołaj], [ok. 1914-1918], [Cmentarz żydowski] [Dokument ikonograficzny] | Oct 27, 2022 |
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