Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is more or less what happened to my grandfather, after whom my son was named--except for the ending. He was denounced by some jealous neighbor to the KGB, arrested in 1944 and sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp in Siberia. His real crime was that he had been a leader in the Jewish Socialist party Bund in Lublin before the war. Stalin did not want such people around after "liberation". My grandfather died in the labor camp in 1953, a few months before he was due to be released. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Chris Crawford wrote: > He was lucky the Russians didn't toss him in prison too. I have a book > written by a Polish Jew who went to the Soviet Union right before the > Nazis invaded. He was accused of treason during the war and spent several > years in Siberian labor camps. After he was released from prison, he > escaped the USSR and went to the United States, where he became a medical > doctor! The book is called Man is Wolf to Man, by Janusz Bardach. The book > is his recounting of his experiences in the Soviet Union. > > http://tinyurl.com/wolftoman > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Become a fan on Facebook > > > > On 11/13/11 2:37 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > >> He joined initially the Red army as a 17-year old in 1942. Later, in 43 >> or 44, he joined the Polish army-in-exile that was formed in the Soviet >> Union. He was there because he and a few members of his family escaped >> the Germans in 1939 by fleeing east from his native Lublin. Everyone else >> died in the Holocaust. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> On Nov 13, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Chris Crawford wrote: >> >>> Nathan, >>> >>> Was your father in the Polish or Soviet Army? >>> >>> -- >>> Chris Crawford >>> Fine Art Photography >>> Fort Wayne, Indiana >>> 260-437-8990 >>> >>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio >>> >>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >>> Become a fan on Facebook >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/13/11 1:28 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >>> >>>> I have enjoyed seeing the posts of Jim's and Tina's fathers next to >>>> planes. My own father was more earthbound, spending the years 1943-1945 >>>> fighting his way from Western Russia to Bernau, 30 km from Berlin, >>>> where >>>> he was the day the war ended, 8th May 1945. Here is a portrait of him, >>>> taken some time in 1944 or 1945, still during the war: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/My-fathers-pictures/16536415_t4kNxD#1581195 >>>> 88 >>>> 3_bm6JVZm-O-LB >>>> >>>> and an a propos project by Brian David Stevens: >>>> >>>> http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/p/they-that-are-left.html >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nathan >>>> >>>> Nathan Wajsman >>>> Alicante, Spain >>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com >>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>>> >>>> >>>> YNWA >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >