Photographic print on stone
Signed by Thomas Dellert
2013
This series of images is based on photos of grave stones original placed on the Jewish cemetery in Krakow, Poland.
I visited the Jewish cemetery in Krakow the snow on the broken graves made a strong impression they had once been graves of loved ones then stolen by the Nazis and crushed by evil placed as pavement in the entrance of extermination camps where millions of victims had to walk their last Golgotha on fragments of their own rich culture just one of the many insulting actions of the murdering rulers now the stones had be transported back to the original graves but broken, in fragments because they where stones and not flesh and blood they survived the hell fire they are the legacy they carry with them all the forgotten names the scattered lives are incarnated into the stones so we shall not forget the remembering stones stands silent but strong like the rock of Israel. I placed a pebble on one of the broken graves to pay my respect And a line from a Jewish song came to my mind.
“There are men with hearts of stone, and stones with the hearts of men.”
Thomas Dellert-Bergh
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