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Subject: [Leica] Warsaw ghetto commemoration in Copenhagen last Sunday
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Fri Apr 28 14:49:45 2006
References: <4451A0F1.2030402@nathanfoto.com>

Great reportage, Nathan. As well in photography as in written word.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 28-apr-06, om 06:58 heeft Nathan Wajsman het volgende geschreven:

> Every year in late April, there is a brief ceremony held at the  
> Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen. The occasion is the anniversary of  
> the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 but is also a more  
> general Holocaust commemoration. It is organised by the Polish Jews  
> Association in Denmark, of which my late father was an active  
> member; in fact, he often gave the main speech, including back in  
> 2001, just two days after my mother died. This year, the ceremony  
> was last Sunday, and I attended before driving back home. Many of  
> the attendees are elderly, and most are Holocaust survivors  
> themselves. Each year the congregation gets a little smaller; for  
> me, the most glaring absence is obviously that of my father, but as  
> I looked around there were many other faces missing...But as can be  
> seen on the last few images, the memory is passed on to the young  
> generations as well. A selection of 12 images is here:
> http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/1407543
>
> BTW, the inscription on the monument visible in several of the  
> pictures means "Never Again" in Polish, Danish and Hebrew.
>
> Comments welcome as usual, and more normal PAW service will be  
> resumed shortly.
>
> Nathan
>
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