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[it-IT]Record tools[it-IT] [it-IT]Displays[it-IT]	Remove from selection Add to selection Numero oggettoM1996/032:242 Creatore David Hughes DescrizioneColoured 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. Luogo di produzioneSerniki, Ukraine Data 1990 Soggettowar crimes, pit killings, genocide, archaeology, archaeology, Australian link to Holocaust Nome oggettophotographs Materialephotographic emulsion, paper, paper Tecnicaphotography Dimensioni width: 178.00 mm height: 174.00 mm Linea di creditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by the War Crimes Investigation Unit

Numero oggettoM1996/032:242

DescrizioneColoured 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.

Luogo di produzioneSerniki, Ukraine

Data 1990

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

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Materialephotographic emulsion, paper, paper

Tecnicaphotography

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Linea di creditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by the War Crimes Investigation Unit

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