The Polish Jews through the eyes of al Kacyzne. Stunning pictures!

Once there lived a man with a funny name Alter Kacyzne. He was a writer and playwright and sometimes poet. A couple of his plays were on the Warsaw stage, and he was also the Chairman of the Jewish PEN club. But favorite art for him was a picture. His Studio in Warsaw was the attraction, and the archive consisted of hundreds of portraits of Polish celebrities and ordinary citizens, scenic photos and urban sketches. In addition, he often went on trips with a camera in the country. And yet he was a lovely family — wife and daughter.

The wife of al Kacyzne died, most likely in one of the death camps, and his daughter Shulamit was saved. It is unknown who saved her, but she survived the occupation, and after the war she married the Italian Ambassador to Poland, went to Italy and lived there until his death in 1999.

Han Kola one hundred and six years. Every night she will confess the sins and eating cookies. Her octogenarian son in America did not believe she was still alive. Warsaw, 1925. (The sins of all Israel — daily reads viduy.)

Hon Shleifer, eighty-five years. Grinder, mechanic, manufacturer of umbrellas and witch doctor. Lomza, 1927.

Aron-Nohem for my sewing machine. Kutno, 1927.

Esther at work. Seven years ago her husband left her and left her with five children. She works as a dressmaker. Parysow, 1927.

A new generation learns to "pour water". Otwock, 1927.

The carpenter and his granddaughter. Chortkiv, 1925.

For which he fought? Feivl of Tabakman, a former prisoner, is unable to find a job as a mechanic. Therefore he wears away on the streets of knives. Warsaw, 1928.

Religious school for girls. Łaskarzew.

Hint. Lublin, 1924.

Ninety-three years the village tailor can without glasses to thread a needle. Parysow, 1926.

Mechanic Eliogu. Twelve years ago, blind in one eye, but agreed to the operation only after it has gone blind in both eyes. Zambrów.

The old castle and the synagogue connected by an underground passage. Ostrog, 1925.

The wife and granddaughter of Meyer of Gurfinkel. Her father lives in Washington, and his mother died. Karczew.

Azrielle, Shabes-klaper. On Friday night, he knocks on the shutters, announcing the beginning of Shabbat. Biała Podlaska, 1926.

Wolf Nachovich, the gravedigger, teaches his grandson to read, and a happy grandmother watching. Biała Podlaska, 1926.

The father and the son. Smith Lazar Bavul not say how old he is, fearing the evil eye, but it should be more than a hundred. Now blacksmith is busy with his son, and his father was a doctor sets a broken arm and leg. Biała Podlaska, 1926.

The wife of the saddler. Wołomin.

Prayer books for sale.

Synagogue. Lublin.

Retirement home in Rivne.

Interestingly, this debate on a theological subject?

And this table is set for Saturday.

The land of Israel in the suburbs of Warsaw. Halutz cultivated fields in Groove.

There, in Groove.

Sunday in Sochi — the day off. The Jews, prazdnovanie under the announcement of the lecture al Kacyzne on the topic "Literature as a national treasure."