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. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements: it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days), it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States, it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996). To uploader: Please provide where and when the image was first published.

This particular image appeared in encyclopedias and in books (Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1990; or The Holocaust by Sir Martin Gilbert, published by Collins, London 1986; and so on) and is featured in an outdoor display in the city if I remember correctly what I once read (take a look at an example: same place, different angle). That's what I mean by the postcard. The image is well known because the synagogue was destroyed in World War II with little visual record. According to Polish copyright law the image is in the Public Domain. --Poeticbent talk 16:44, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

This file was reviewed on 09:40, 11 August 2010 (UTC) by the administrator or trusted user Electron <Talk?>, who confirmed the Public Domain status on that date.