Jewish cemetery in Karczew, Masovia, Poland. Photo: Christian Herrmann. All rights reserved.
This article is part of “Practically about Memory”, our series on memory activism in the post-Soviet space. Read the introduction to it here.
For almost 15 years, German photographer Christian Herrmann has been documenting the remains of a world that no longer exists, travelling across eastern Europe photographing former synagogues, derelict Jewish cemeteries and doors with traces of torn mezuzahs. Herrmann’s blog “Vanished World” and books show a part of east European history that is still present in a everyday life, but often overlooked.
