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The
polychrome
wooden
vault
and
bimah
of the
Gwoździec Synagogue
, painstakingly reconstructed in 2014, is the centerpiece of the permanent exhibition at the
Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews
in
Warsaw
, Poland. The original synagogue, built in c. 1640 in what is now the Ukrainian town of
Hvizdets
, was burnt down in 1941 by
Nazi German
forces.
Photograph credit: Magdalena Starowieyska, Dariusz Golik
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