Exhibition at the local Museum in May 2013

Arriving  in Lubaczow in the evening of May 19th 2013, it turned out to be the local Museum Night. 
I had never heard about such events, but was told such museums nights are arranged in different European countries.

We first went to the open air museum opposite the museum building where the local population had come to see a group of young women and men from the Tatra mountains  dance, sing and tell stories, while the men made white cheese the way these mountain people do it traditionally.

My Polish is extremely limited, but you could see and feel that the public enjoyed themselves very much.The event was part of a new exhibition about shepherds and their way of life in several European countries. To get an impression, you can check a series of photos at the bottom of this webpage.
http://www.muzeumkresow.eu/aktualnosci/artykul/noc-muzeow-2013

I was told that the open museum, often called Skansen in Poland, in the future plans to add more houses, and that one of these houses then will be a house presenting a Jewish home from before the war.

During this Museum Night, the locals were visiting the different exhibitions in the main museum building. On the third floor they just opened a new version of their former exhibition of the three religions that used to be part of life in Lubaczow  - representing the Ukrainian Orthodox church, the Jewish community and the Roman Catholic Church.

For the Jewish section they had several beautiful objects, many borrowed from other collections. Two objects, a parochet and a ketubbah, I suggested to the museum staff  that they check closer to validate.
All in all, this was also a pleasant surprise.

Two objects at the exhibition made a special impression:

From the synagogue
This object  comes from the synagogue that was burnt down by the Germans in September 1939.

Check this website of  Tomasz Wisniewski

http://www.jewishmag.com/114mag/lostworld3/lostworld3.htm

and roll down till you see the two photos of the synagogue in Lubaczow, before and after the Germans burnt it down in September 1939. In the first photo you will find this decoration, as one of two.

From the Jewish Cemetery

Then last to an object at the exhibition that used to decorate the main entrance gate of the Jewish cemetery.

Originally there were two, but one remains.

Imagine  two of these on the gate doors!

You can see the small holes where the decoration was once nailed to the door, and even the slight silhouette if you look closer.

There are intentions to have such decorations once more on the cemetery gates.