A permanent exhibition in the synagogue
This exhibition fills a blank page in the history of Dzierżoniów / Rychbach / Reichenbach.
Żydowski Dzierżoniów – Jewish Rychbach – Jüdisches Reichenbach 1945 – 1948
Jakub Egit – a Jewish Activist in Postwar Poland – from Dream to Reality
"The Synagogue will be Pulsing with Life" - The local daily reports on the events and changes that have given the synagogue a new purpose, enriching the role of the synagogue in the comunity of Dzierżoniów.
The poster inviting to the exhibition "Żydowski Dzierżoniów - Jewish Rychbach - Jüdisches Reichenbach 1945-1948", telling the story of the Jewish settlement in postwar Lower Silesia and its inofficial capital of Rychbach - Dzierżoniów.
The richly decorated hallway leads to the exhibition rooms on the lower floor.
The colours of Poland and Israel decorate the doorway leading to the prayer room upstairs.
"CHLEB!" - BREAD
This poster from fall 1945 rallies the Jewish settlers of Lower Silesia to the Jewish Brigades that are to harvest the mature winter wheat sown by the departed German inhabitants in fall of 1944.
A donation for the synagogue museum, a panorama of Jerusalem.
Touring the exhibition.
Rafael and Dorin Blau with the front page article, celebrating "The First Year of Jewish Life in Lower Silesia".
Future gates of the yard of the synagogue.
Dorin Blau, vice-president of the Fundacja Beiteinu Chaj - 2004, welcomes some special guests on opening day of the exhibition on rosh ha shana.
Musical presentation on the opening day.
Mrs. Wanda Ostrowska, deputy mayor of Dzierżoniów.
This meeting room was part of the apartment provided by the congregation for the original rabbi Moritz Cohn.
Rafael Blau explains the Torah rolls of the synagogue.
Vice-president Dorin Blau entertains visitors during lunchtime on the opening day of the exhibition.
Lunch served by students of the local high school.
JAKUB EGIT - visionary, idealist, creator, and leader of the Yishuv, the Jewish postwar settlement of Lower Silesia.
"REFLEXIONS" - memories in words and pictures from the life of the synagogue and its congregations. In the lower right corner is shown the new grave stone of Mojżesz Jaakubowicz, leader and protector of the synagogue in the postwar years.
Rafael Blau speaks about Rychbach, the Jewish city that doubled its Jewish population within three months between March and July 1946; it repeated this development several times again.
From Jakub Egit's book "Tsu a naj Lebn" - To a New Life. Poster to the right displays tables and reports from Egit's book of the rapid economic and cultural development of the Jewish settlement.
This is how we like to remember the opening day.
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