Kolomyja, Poland, View of a street, postwar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, "A Demolished World - Kolomyja".

Kolomyja, Poland, A parade of Jewish students on Poland's National Day, 1930's.

The parade was held in Pilsozky Square in the city on 03/05 during the 1930's.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The train station, 1994.

The train station was built by the city's Jews in 1905.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The Polish State Gymnasium where Jews and Poles learnt together before the war.

The building still stands today.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The famous market place in the city.

The market where Jews earned their living from selling milk, vegetables and fruit to other Jews.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A picture of the old Kossof Hassidic synagogue, 1994.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A picture of the Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov from the 18th century.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A sketch of the Talmud Torah building, 02/03/1939.

The picture by Arie Sukman, appeared in "Pinkas Kolomyja" which was published in Yiddish in America.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The train tracks on Sobieski Street, which passed the Vocational Training School's old building.

The Vocational Training and Wood Crafts School taught young Jews different professions.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A picture of the Hirsch School which was used by the Judenrat and on the left is the central Great Synagogue.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The scene of the first train arriving in the city in 1905.

The train was built by wealthy Jews who lived in Kolomyja in 1905 and was used for bringing merchandise, trees and oil from Sloboda Rumgurska where they traded.

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Kolomyja, Poland, War criminal trial, postwar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, Rabbi Yosef Yisrael Lau in his yard.

Rabbi Lau lived in Kolomyja.

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Kolomyja, Poland, Rabbi Yoseph Yisrael Lau swearing in Jewish soldiers to the Polish Army on the national sports field.

The national sports field was close to the 49th Infantry Regiment's base during the 1930's.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A state football field, where Jewish teams played against Polish teams, prewar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The city center, prewar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The City Square during the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Kolomyja, Poland, View of a street, postwar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A photograph of Mr. Yitzhak Teitelbaum, researcher for the "Yizkor" book.

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Kolomyja, Poland, Pilsudski Street, also called The Train Street, postwar.

During the German occupation this street was known as the "Bloody Street". The Germans used this street to take thousands of victims to the death trains using brutality and humiliation, and killing women and children.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A train station.

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Kolomyja, Poland, View of a street.

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Kolomyja, Poland, Leginow Street, a central street in the city, Postwar.

The street led to a famous Polish Catholic church.

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Kolomyja, Poland, View of a street, 1994.

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Kolomyja, Poland, View of a street, postwar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, View of a street, postwar.

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Kolomyja, Poland, Members of the Great Synagogue's choir, who perished with the other Jews from the city.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A photograph of the great Rabbi Yisrael Yosef Lau, the last Rabbi of the Kolomyja community.

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Kolomyja, Poland, The Great Synagogue before it was burnt by the Nazi's on the last day of Sukkot, Hoshana Raba, 1942.

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Kolomyja, Poland, A model made out of wood of the Great Synagogue.

The model was built by the artist Hanan Weissman from Givataim based on Arie Suchman's short films in 1994. The model is an exhibit at the Testimony Museum in Nir Galim, where many other exhibits with the theme of the Holocast of European Jewry are displayed.

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