Broken Memories

<p>The pictures of gravestones in this book have been put together from pictures of the fragments recovered since the 1980s by the municipality of Kutno. </p><p>Seven hundred fragments were recovered in the surroundings walls and pavement during years of tireless work. The fragments have been cleaned numbered photographed and stored in a storage room in Kutno awaiting a proper moment.</p><p>That moment came in mid-2008 when a new group of descendants of Jews from Kutno was formed. Using</p><p>computer-scanned pictures of the fragments it was possible to put together nearly half of them into 159 more or</p><p>less complete gravestones (matzevot). Among these only a small part displayed a family name as was usual on</p><p>matzevot of that time (family names were enforced on Polish Jews at the beginning of the 19th century). For the</p><p>most part they displayed only the name of the deceased that of his or her father and the date of death. Comparing</p><p>the matzeva data with that of our genealogical database it was possible to recover some of the missing information</p><p>and especially the family names. This data was added in this book.</p><p><br></p>