Burning synagogue

The shacks around the burning synagogue remind one of the ghetto. The artist served on the committee for the preservation of Jewish monuments in Lvov before the war. He also wrote a PhD documenting synagogues and Jewish ritual objects in Poland. Thus it would seem that the Palevi synagogue is being documented. Those gathered around the burning building are more likely to be Aryan spectators rather than Jews. Considering the curfews imposed by the SS and the frequency of the 'aktions', Jews would not have had the liberty to crowd around the burning icon whether they were in the ghetto or not.