Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Have you spent much time with these stories from your father? Tapes? or? Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Many of course. After all, Russia occupied several neighboring > countries, so Latvians, Poles etc. had even more of a reason to > flee. One thing to be conscripted into the army of your own > country, another into the one of a hostile, occupying state. > > My father's story is a bit of the opposite, but of course it was > also a different war. In 1942, when he was 17, he volunteered to > join the Red Army and was accepted despite being too young (he may > have lied about his age, but I am not sure). He fought against the > Germans for the next 3 years and ended the war in May 1945 as an > officer commanding a small unit holding the town of Bernau, 35 km > from Berlin. For a young Jewish man in those years, this was not a > bad fate at all. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:02 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > >> Well damn! >> maybe we should start a new group. >> >> With the web >> we'd have many soon. >> >> I wonder what the numbers are for eastern europeans fleeing >> conscription into the Czar's army. >> googling "fleeing conscription into the czar's army" >> brings up a whole lot reading material >> >> Definitely interesting history. >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Richard Wasserman wrote: >> >>> Add me to the list! My maternal grandmother and her 3 brothers >>> came to the US about 1905 to escape the Czar's army, although one >>> of the brothers had already maimed himself to avoid serving. I >>> avoided Vietnam with the aid of Quaker counselors and a >>> sympathetic family doctor and had the complete support of my >>> parents. My draft lottery number was 26... They were interesting >>> times >>> >>> Richard Wasserman >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:35 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>> >>>> fascinating! >>>> grandchildren (and great grandchildren) >>>> of draft dodgers >>>> who also did (or didn't) >>>> a bit of draft dodging >>>> themselves >>>> >>>> many different forms of courage >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> George Lottermoser >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information