Austro-Hungarian Monetary Exchange Rates. From a 1905 Baedeker's travel guide. Collection of Symbols Used on Jewish tombstones in Poland - Four motifs are described: sanctuary/gate, tree, wine/grapevine, and light (menorah/astral bodies); hands. Photos of tombstone symbols.. Image Before My Eyes - A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939. By Dobroszycki & Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Schocken Books, New York, 1977 Photos from some towns in Galicia and other Polish towns. Images of Galician Towns The Jews of Galicia in 1839 The Jews of Galicia under the Austrian-Polish Rule, 1867-1918 by Professor Piotr Wróbel. The Petroleum Industry in the Drohobycz Administrative District. In the 19th century, the discovery of “black gold” (oil) attracted speculators and fortune hunters to Galicia, but the Polish Carpathian Mountains' oil seeps had been used in Galicia at least 300 years earlier. Personal Stories         A Rich Remembrance of Pre-War Sniatyn: An interview with Keila Adlerstein, born in Sniatyn, 1904. Video of Debica Synagogue. New Town Synagogue in Debica, Poland. The synagogue was built at the end of the 17th century. The present shape of the building dates from the middle of the 18th century. The synagogue is oriented, with 3-aisle main prayer room (16m x 30m). Today with a plain vault, previously with a sail-vault in each aisle. A two-storeyed risalit homed the women gallery on the east side, under the porch. There are some unique polichromes covered with plaster. During the WWII the synagogues was burnt by the nazis. In 1960 it was renovated and adapted for a shop. In 1995, after another renovation, it was returned to the Jewish Congregation in Cracow. Since then, the synagogue is managed by the Community. The shop still exists there - with permission of the Community. The film was made in 2006 by Ireneusz Socha.