What were the ancient towns and villages inhabited by the Jewish community like? What was the daily and festive life of the Jews like before the outbreak of the Second World War? You will be able to discover it thanks to the exhibition of the Center for them. L. Zamenhof.

“The Lost World. Polish Jews. Photographs from 1918-1939” is an extraordinary exhibition. It shows images of shtetls, Jewish quarters of large towns and villages. What were the Jews doing in the Second Polish Republic? What were the synagogues that didn’t survive World War II like?

Traditional Jewish communities retained meticulously cultivated forms of life, habits and manners that remained unchanged for centuries.

Photos in the exhibit also show assimilated Jews, often with their Polish friends.

Thanks to the photographs, it will be possible to know the multithreaded image of the world of Polish Jews. Take an exciting trip down memory lane. Look into the eyes of former inhabitants of Polish cities, see the interior of their apartments, how they lived, how they experienced joy and worries.

This irretrievably lost world will come alive for a moment through black and white photographs from 1918-1939, when no one foresaw the tragedy of the Holocaust.

The exhibition is part of the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Białystok ghetto uprising. It will open Friday (Feb. 6:00 p.m. at the L. Zamenhof Center. The exhibition will be available until April 8.