Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, That's wonderful. I will keep a watch out for the US version - which I hope is made. -- Clive Photographs: http://clive.smugmug.com Facebook:?http://www.facebook.com/clive.moss Blog: http://clivemoss.blogspot.com/ . On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 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 > > 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/ ...