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English: Major Baruch Steinberg , Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army, with Polish Army officers, presumably Jewish, at the Postępowa [Progressive] Synagogue, Krakow, on 5 September 1935. In the photo he is holding what looks like a memorial tablet. Jewish Polish Army veterans of the War of Independence met in Krakow on 5 September 1935 to offer a collective prayer for Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, who died in May.
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  • Scanned from Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment, by Anna M. Cienciala, Natalʹi͡a Sergeevna Lebedeva, Wojciech Materski, Maia A. Kipp, 2008, ISBN 0300108516 , p.139. The book on p. xii credits the photo to the collection of Dr. Simon Schochet from New York.
  • Originally uploaded to the English language Wikipedia by Piotrus in December 2008 ( file log ); transferred to Commons by User:Jarekt using CommonsHelper .
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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland , all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.
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