Note: We deliver all images in WebP format. Since September 2022, all modern browsers are supporting this format. It seems you are using an older browser that cannot display images in WebP format. Please update your browser.

Wall with framed black and white photos

Poyln

An Eradicated Jewish World
Photographs by Alter Kacyzne

The photographic exhibition Poyln: An Eradicated Jewish World was on display at the Jewish Museum Berlin from February 2 to April 7, 2002.

Past exhibition

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, level 1
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Where, when, what?

Developed by the Aufbau Publishing Company, Berlin, the exhibition presented photographs by the Polish photographer and poet, Alter Kacyzne, who was commissioned by the New York-based Yiddish newspaper Forverts in the 1920s to document life in the Polish shtetls. These are pictures of a lost home, later destroyed once and for all by the National Socialists. The exhibition was developed in cooperation with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

The black and white photo shows several boys in caps sitting close together at a table. In front of them are open books, behind them stands a man and points to a line of text

Poster for the exhibition Poyln

Exhibition Information at a Glance

  • When 2 Feb to 7 Apr 2002
  • Where Old Building, level 1
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
    See location on map

  • Galicia

    Objects related to Galicia in the digitized holdings of our collection (in German)

    Collection

  • The store of David Kempler with the inscription “Krakow café and pastry store, breakfast, dinner table”

    Berlin Transit

    Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s

    Exhibition
    23 Mar to 15 Jul 2012

  • Houses made from red and white and blue checkered plastic travel bags, sitting on cardboard boxes

    matchmaker matchmaker

    Constructions in the Global Shtetl / Longing for a Better Past

    Exhibition
    26 Jun to 27 Sep 2003

  • Long staircase with projected Hebrew and Latin letters that form city names

    Our Exhibitions

    List of current and future exhibitions

    At a Glance…

  • Permanent exhibition, stairs to the axes from the old building, view downwards

    All Past Exibitions

    From 2001 until today

    Past Exhibitions

Share, Newsletter, Feedback