The Posthumous Landscape

A photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind remnants of Jewish communal life in post-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.

In 1992 Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer David Kaufman found himself in Poland shooting footage for a television program about hidden child survivors of the Holocaust. A decade later, he returned to make films about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Łódź Ghetto. Deeply moved by the quality of Jewish material culture—the remnants of Jewish life—that he saw on these trips, he set out over the next 20 years to record the vivid afterlives of apartments, factories, and synagogues that were part of everyday Jewish life in pre-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia, as well as the places of despair and death that followed.

The Posthumous Landscape is more than an act of preserving memory. Kaufman brings his decades of documentary storytelling experience to bear, bringing life to these places left behind. 

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