On Oct 13, 2017 (Simchat Torah, Jewish celebration day), I made a photo of the chestnut tree at the courtyard of the White Stork Synagogue, at Wlodkowica 9 Street in Wroclaw. During the Second World War, the city’s Jewish inhabitants were rounded up and sent to death camps, with the synagogue’s courtyard serving as a collection point, with this tree as a silent witness. “All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports,” Chief Seattle, the Suquamish Tribe and Dkhw’Duw’Absh chief (1780-1866).