Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/31
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Very nice picture and very nice witness and symbol for all the humanity
saludos
Lluis
El 30/12/2011, a las 21:57, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:
> I was born in the city of Wroc?aw in south-western Poland in 1960.
> Following a government-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign in the late
> 60s, my parents and I emigrated to Denmark in 1972. My sister did
> not go with us, and she still lives in the city of my birth. Of
> course, today it is an entirely different world. Wroc?aw is a city
> of almost 700.000 people, located in one of the most dynamic regions
> in one the most dynamic countries anywhere in the Western world. The
> Jewish population of the city had dwindled to almost nothing by the
> late 1980s, but in recent years there has been a remarkable revival,
> due mainly to people re-discovering their ancestry and a bit of
> return migration. One tangible proof is the old synagogue "Pod
> Bia?ym Bocianem" ("the white stork") which had fallen into disrepair
> until a Norwegian singer took up the cause and started a foundation
> that spearheaded the renovation of the temple. The work was
> completed last year and the result can be seen here:
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> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#1652231741_kL7C5bg-O-LB
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> The congregation has about 400 members, small fry by US standards,
> but a remarkable revival considering the circumstances. There is
> also a Jewish school in Wroc?aw, a good indication that the
> community has a future.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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