Students have created an “ice cemetery” in the northern Polish town of Olsztyn to recall the former Jewish presence.
According to an article in the local newspaper, pupils of the Erich Mendelsohn Plastic Arts Senior High School and students from Eichstätt in Germany cut ice blocks in the form of matzevot, or Jewish gravestones. It took them a dozen or so hours to engrave the ice sculptures. The duration of the installation will depend on weather conditions. Last Friday, volunteers mounted lamps which stretched from the old town, where the architect Erich Mendelsohn was born, to the Jewish cemetery. In the pre-burial house on Zyndrama z Maszkowic a luminous David Star has been displayed.
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza Olsztyn daily, Tomasz Kurs, Lodowy cmentarz przypomina o historii Żydów (December 12th, 2011) as quoted on Virtual Shtetl