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...How doth the City sit solitary, 
That was full of people!
How is she become a widow!
She that was great among the Nations,
And princess among the provinces,
How is she become tributary!
My eyes do fail with tears,
For the destruction of my people;

Arise, cry out in the night,
Pour out thine heart before the Lord,
Lift up thy hands toward Him
For the life of thy young children,
That faint for hunger
In the top of every street...
Lamentations of Jeremiah--
1:1; 2:11; 2:19.

 

Remembrance and Restoration Project

A project to restore the Jewish cemetery and remember the martyrs, founded in 1997 by Piotrkow survivors Saul and Robert Dessau, and Ben Giladi.

Articles

Honoring the Departed: The Piotrkow Trybunalski Remembrance and Restoration Project, by Ben Giladi
Dedication of Memorial at Rakow Forest / Piotrkow Poland, by Shmuel Ben Eliezer
"Polish-Jewish Monument," by Monika Scislowska; article on the unveiling of a monument to the Jews murdered in the Rakow forest by the Nazis; donated by Ben Giladi and brothers Saul and Robert Dessau in 1998.

Photos

Photos of plaques and memorials created as part of the Remembrance and Restoration Project, courtesy of Ben Giladi. Click on any image for a larger view.

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Memorial plaque at the main entrance to the Jewish cemetery established in 1792; dedicated in 1997
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Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Great Synagogue; dedicated in 1997; click here for another view.
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Plaque commemorating the establishment of the first ghetto in Europe by the Nazis; dedicated in 1997
oldcem_plaque.jpg (31261 bytes) Plaque commemorating the site of the first Jewish cemetery, 17th-18th century (non-existing); dedicated in 1997
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Plaque at Plac Czarnieckiego in memory of the martyrs shot during the liquidation of the ghetto in October 1942; dedicated in 1997; click here for another view.
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Memorial to the 560 martyrs of Piotrkow murdered in the Rakow Forest on December 20, 1942, and 39 Jewish children slaughtered there in July 1943; dedicated in 1998

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