Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You remember well, Steve! When Joseph comes to visit, the first order of business is to look for a suitable boules pitch. There are plenty around Alicante, including near my home, so this spring when he and my uncle from Florida visited, we had our 3 Nations Championship: http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/P?tanque-in-Alicante/7561180_HAEz4#488606861_T3Jn3 You are right about the impact on the French psyche--because most of the rounding up was not done by Germans but by French police and gendarmerie, in the service of the Vichy government. Cheers, 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 Jan 4, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> One of the images that is included in the FOM II project is this portrait >> from 2001 of my uncle Joseph Weismann from Le Mans: >> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/20.jpg > > > and I recall a photo of him playing boules...somewhere? > > also FOM2 ? >> >> He still lives in Le Mans, still plays boulles and still enjoys the good >> things in life. One of his principal activities in retirement is to be >> there for his family, and to speak about the Holocaust and his own >> experiences as a survivor to groups, especially children, around France. >> He was arrested in 1942 along with all other Parisian Jews, separated >> from his parents and sisters (all of whom perished in Auschwitz), fled >> the camp with another 11-year old boy and thus avoided deportation to >> Poland, and spent the rest of the war being hidden by people in the Loire >> valley, where he settled after the war. >> >> Now a film with a fairly significant budget (?20M or something like that) >> has been made about his story: >> http://www.larafle-lefilm.com/ > > > this is an episode that lies deep in the French psyche, this movie has > great potential to be powerful and well done, I will look for it. > > Steve > >> >> It will be out in March. No idea about releases in non-French language >> markets, but I am sure they will happen. >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >