Wailing Wall in Kazimierz
"Jewish Wailing
Wall" made from gravestones desecrated by Nazis
According to my 1998 tour guide, the
cemetery adjacent to the Remu'h Synagogue was desecrated by German
soldiers who used the grave stones for target practice. The broken
pieces of the stones were put into a memorial wall, which the
guide said is called the Jewish Wailing Wall. The outside of
the wall is shown in the photo above. Behind the wall is the
cemetery.
The three photos below, taken in October
2005, show the Wailing Wall, on the inside of the cemetery; it
was constructed from fragments of grave stones.
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