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Actions Displays	Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM1996/032:242 Creator David Hughes DescriptionColoured photographs taken by the Special Investigation Unit in Ukraine 1990. Serial "P" - Re-interring the bodies, re-filling the grave, ceremony for the dead. At 1pm on Sunday 13 July 1990, a service was held at the grave site. It was attended by Mr Polevoy, the regional Procurator, Mr Bob Greenwood Q.C., Director of the Special Investigations Unit, the Soviet and Australian exhumation teams, representatives of the Jewish community of the Rovno region and the people of the village of Serniki and Zarichnye. Rabbi Shmuel Bloch, a visiting Rabbi from the Chabad Lubavitch, New York, USA, was in the Soviet Union at the time and able to perform the service. This photograph shows Rabbi Bloch symbolically closing the grave. A view showing the reinterment ceremony at the grave site. Production placeSerniki, Ukraine Production date 1990 Subjectwar crimes, pit killings, genocide, archaeology, archaeology, Australian link to Holocaust Object namephotographs Materialphotographic emulsion, paper, paper Techniquephotography Dimensions width: 178.00 mm height: 174.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by the War Crimes Investigation Unit

Object numberM1996/032:242

DescriptionColoured photographs taken by the Special Investigation Unit in Ukraine 1990. Serial "P" - Re-interring the bodies, re-filling the grave, ceremony for the dead. At 1pm on Sunday 13 July 1990, a service was held at the grave site. It was attended by Mr Polevoy, the regional Procurator, Mr Bob Greenwood Q.C., Director of the Special Investigations Unit, the Soviet and Australian exhumation teams, representatives of the Jewish community of the Rovno region and the people of the village of Serniki and Zarichnye. Rabbi Shmuel Bloch, a visiting Rabbi from the Chabad Lubavitch, New York, USA, was in the Soviet Union at the time and able to perform the service. This photograph shows Rabbi Bloch symbolically closing the grave.

A view showing the reinterment ceremony at the grave site.

Production placeSerniki, Ukraine

Production date 1990

Subjectwar crimes, pit killings, genocide, archaeology, archaeology, Australian link to Holocaust

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Materialphotographic emulsion, paper, paper

Techniquephotography

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by the War Crimes Investigation Unit

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