Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I does not look like exciting theatre, but clearly very moving and important. Thanks for sharing On 23/01/2005, at 10:01 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Approximately 102,000 Dutch Jews died in Auschwitz. As part of the > commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on > 27th January, the Dutch Auschwitz committee has organized a reading of > all the Dutch victims' names. The reading is done by volunteers, each > of whom reads about 50-100 names and the age at which the person died. > It started Friday evening and will continue until Thursday the 27th. > The reading takes place at the Verzetmuseum in Amsterdam until Tuesday > (I think) and moves on to Kamp Westerbork for the last couple of days. > > I went to Amsterdam early this morning to see a bit of the reading. It > is quite an emotional experience, both for the readers and for the > audience. The names are read in alphabetical order, they were doing > the E's when I was there. With permission of the organizers, I took a > few pictures: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexauschwitz.html > > I would highly recommend to the Dutch LUGgers to make time and visit > the reading. It goes on 24 hours a day, so it should be possible to > find a few minutes... > > Nathan > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > Stock photography available at: > http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair