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How the past
is being remembered
This section moves on from the theme of the memorialization of the
Holocaust to consider other processes that have affected the memory of
Jewish civilization in postwar Galicia. There is evidence of desolation and cultural abandonment, but also of
cultural continuity. Synagogues and cemeteries are still in use, the
latter sometimes also being utilized by survivors to preserve the
memory of family members who died in the Holocaust and have no other
grave. There is also much evidence of regeneration and restoration in
an effort to recapture the past that was lost and take pride in it.
Synagogues are being restored, both for Jewish worship and to house
museums and libraries. Cemeteries are being cleaned by Polish youth
groups and by foreign Jews, their walls and gates are being
reconstructed, and mausoleums are being constructed to protect the
tombs of saintly rabbis that serve as sites of pilgrimage.
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