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2012-01-19

The ‘And I still see their faces’ exhibition will be displayed in other cities

On January 19th, 2012, the opening of the Spanish version of the exhibition called ‘Images of Polish Jews. And I still see their faces’ will take place at the Palacio de Canete (Sefarad-Israel) in Madrid. On January 26th, the Polish – English version of the exhibition mounted by the Shalom Foundation will be presented at the Gorki Museum and Castle in Szamotuly.

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The exhibition called ‘And I still see their faces…’ tells the story of the presence although it shows absentees. In 1994, Golda Tencer, the Director General of the Shalom Foundation, called on everyone to submit pictures of Polish Jews. Only a few believed that after fifty years after the Shoah someone would respond to that appeal. Surprisingly, over 9 thousand pictures were sent. The photographs that were collected by the Foundation are not the kind of front page pictures. They were stored in attics and covered in old scrap paper. They were donated from people living in distant places over the globe, from cities, towns and villages. Most of them were sent by Poles, Polish families, neighbors and friends. Many pictures were also submitted by Jews spread all over the world but storing the slivers of the erstwhile world of theirs in their households. The pictures, photographs of ordinary people in all various aspects of their everyday routine, make us realize in a startling way how great, colorful and active was the community of Jewish Poles. The Jews co-created the history and culture of Poland. Thanks to everyone who responded to the appeals of the Shalom Foundation, a unique and one of the biggest photo collections of Polish Jewish pictures on a worldwide scale has been created.

Over the course of fifteen years, the exhibition was displayed in over forty museums in the world, including such cities as Los Angeles, Mexico, Jerusalem, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Vilnius, Buenos Aires, Grenoble, Lyon and Toronto.

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