Using archival photos as reference material i have created more than 100 paintings that form the basis of a series of childrens books that illustrate synagogues lost across europe the project will soon expand to cover synagogues in north africa arab countries and israel around the time of the establishment of the state of israel. The lost synagogues is a collection of vibrant paintings depicting synagogues that were eradicated before and during wwii andrea strongwater has researched jewish communities across europe to connect archival photos with written records that together tell the story of european jewish life before the holocaust. Just like the 6000000 jews murdered the synagogues and the communities that they represent must be remembered families worked lived learned and loved in these diverse places blacksmiths and teachers tailors and doctors beggars and moguls mothers fathers and children created communities in every sense of that word communities that centered around the ubiquitous often imposing though sometimes humble structures shown in where we once gathered lost synagogues of europe. Is where we once gathered lost synagogues of europe below caring for one another rolly dumaguit caring for one another rolly dumaguit door roanoke sdarm 10 uur geleden 1 uur en 3 minuten 58 weergaven sda reform movement general conference administration seminar theme the church of god at the threshold of eternity