Saturday, April 28, 2012

Yad Vashem Photo Archive » Pinsk, Poland, An abandoned building

If You write  on Google: An abandoned building 
You will find
Yad Vashem Photo Archive » Pinsk, Poland, An abandoned building and the picture of ruins shown at the bottom.
The building is/was in the city of Pinsk and it was synagogue. 
But it is not mentioned in the archives just  Pinsk, Poland, An abandoned building
Before WWII

After WWIIAfter 1960
So it is likely that the Great Synagogue in Pinsk, survived the WWII but was dystroyed during Sovjet/Belarus regime! The Franciscan Church and the monastery of the 16-18 cent. on the left survived!

Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, from Pinsk, Belarus: Fraydl (née Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz,