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Jewish Tombstones for Everyday Use – Lukasz Baksik

a photo of grinding wheel made of matzevot

"Matzevot for Everyday Use", Lukasz Baksik, 2008-2011

Photographer Łukasz Baksik (born in 1975) is primarily interested in documentary photography. All of his previous projects (e.g. Main Course Polish Style, Ordering a Beer, or The People of Nowy Square) contained a crucial social component. For many years Łukasz Baksik has been documenting Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

Embellished with symbols and inscriptions, Jewish tombstones convey information about the life of people, families and entire shtetls (towns). How many matzevot were there before the World War II at the 1,200 Jewish cemeteries in Poland? This is a question, which nobody can answer today. The number may have reached a few hundred thousand or a few million.

More than four hundred Jewish cemeteries did not survive the war times. They were rearranged to provide sites for housing estates, sports fields, garbage dumps or sand quarries. The sand mined from them to build houses was mixed with human remains. Only a hundred and fifty graveyards still have more than a hundred gravestones.

During the World War II the Nazi occupants used matzevot to pave the courtyards of their new buildings, to lay roads or erect walls. Poles continued this infamous practice after the war. Matzevot were used, for instance, to line a water pool for fire fighters, a railway embankment or a riverbank. They were used as building material for furnaces, flooring and road curbs. A visitor will find hundreds of grinding wheels made of matzevot, many of them still bearing Hebrew inscriptions.

The excibition “Matzevot for Everyday Use” forms part of 22 Jewish Culture Festival which takes place in Krakow – Poland from 29 of June until 8 of July 2012.


Migration Citizenship Education

Migration Citizenship Eduacation is a powerful, user-friendly information platform developed by Network Migration in Europe e.V. which provides free online access to learning resources on migration, minorities and human rights in European Citizenship Education on a european and national level, current discourses on migration, minorities, asylum, citizenship, identities and human rights in transmigration and immigration societies in the past and present, diverse and similar experiences and conflicts shown through the country profiles of Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, facilitated search for good practice projects and co-operation partners, support for all those involved in education, politics, culture, media and society, issues involving migrants and migration policies touch all levels of society in an enlarged Europe. Migrationeducation.org started its service in early 2007 and is updated regularly. Other country profiles and migration and minority issues are planned.

The portal www.migrationeducation.org wants to adhere to the demands for rapid and well-founded information on migration, minorities and human rights in past and present. New transnational perspectives, knowledge on inclusion and exclusion policies and practices of migrants and minorities in european societies, are needed in order to strengthen democracy and human rights.

The Webportal is based on a collection of learning resources on (Forced) migration and human rights in Europe´s past and present specifically designed to provide support to all those involved in education, politics, culture, media and society.

The portal is provided by Network Migration in Europe e. V.  in cooperation with european partners:

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republik, Germany, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey

 

 


Child Migration Research Network

The Child Migration Research Network (CMRN) has been established to help assess the impact of migration on children and youth.  The aim of the CMRN is to bring together researchers who look at how migration affects children and to highlight research work, especially that in grey literature or other hard to reach sources, that focuses on this area.

Estimating the numbers of children affected by migration worldwide is beset by problems, but the high rates of adult migration suggest that enormous numbers of children and youth are affected, either as migrants themselves (with families or alone) or by members of their families migrating.  For more on numbers see some of our data sources.  If you would like to join the researchers network, contribute a resource, comment on the website or sign up for email updates please use the links in the left hand column.

The Child Migration Research Network grew out of work carried out by researchers at the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty (Migration DRC), and its successor, the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium. The Migration DRC’s research on young people focused on the independent migration of children and youth and began to bring together researchers and practitioners working with children affected by migration. The Migrating out of Poverty consortium’s research over the next six years will include further investigation of girls’ migration in developing countries, with research findings intended to inform migration and social protection policy recommendations.

Although there is some research that looks at children in the developed world who are first, second or even third generation migrants and how migration affects their education, health, cultural life and myriad other aspects, the focus of the CMRN is mainly on children and young people in developing countries or those subject to the immigration policies of developed countries.

The CMRN is run by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium at the University of Sussex, which is funded by DFID. CMRN was set up thanks to funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.


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