[Leica] Nathan's PAD 29/11/2015: my French family

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Well  Nathan mon ami!! Once again you prove you are the master of 
travelogues! just super. heck for all the neat photos and life moments about 
the world in a Nathan show I'd be quite happy to pay a farthing or a quid? 
To see them
Well done me old son! thank you
cheers,
Dr. ted  :-)

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of Jim Nichols
Sent: December-01-15 1:52 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 29/11/2015: my French family

I, too, like the portrait of Isabelle.

Since Joseph and I are the same age, it is not surprising that we have 
similar hair lines.  You also presented him well in your photos.

Thanks for sharing these family scenes.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 12/1/2015 2:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> As some of you know, the Wajsman clan has a branch in France (and a branch 
> of that branch in Brussels). Actually, it was the first part of the family 
> that emigrated from Eastern Poland, when Shmuel Wajsman left Lublin for 
> Paris in 1920 in seach of a better life. He settled in to a working class 
> existence in Paris and had three children, one of whom was Joseph, who is 
> not technically my uncle (I think the correct term is granduncle or some 
> such, but is totally immaterial?he is simply ?mon vieux oncle? when we 
> speak). Joseph was born in 1930, and in 1942, like most other French Jews, 
> he and his family were rounded up and sent to a transit camp, from where 
> most were sent on to Auschwitz and perished there. But Joseph managed to 
> escape the camp with a friend and was hidden by villagers in the Loire 
> valley during the remainder of the war. He later settled in Le Mans where 
> he lives to this day in an old house in the centre with a great wine 
> cellar. In 2010, the story of his capture and escape in 1942 was made into 
> a movie, La Rafle, the premiere of which I had the pleasure to attend at a 
> theatre on Champs Elys?es in March of that year (the English title is The 
> Roundup).
>
> Anyway, yesterday I had meetings at the OECD in Paris which required me to 
> travel there on Sunday, and thanks to the French TGV it takes only 50 
> minutes to travel from Gare Montparnasse in Paris to Le Mans, so I spend 
> Sunday night visiting Joseph. While I have seen him on various occasions 
> here in Alicante or in Brussels in recent years, I had not been to Le Mans 
> for 10 years or so. So it was nice to spend a quiet evening talking with 
> him, and also having dinner with his daughter (so my cousin) Isabelle who 
> lives just 100 meters away. Of course I took pictures:
>
> A portrait of Joseph in a pensive mood:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-pxv9nwz/A
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> At his desk in his home office (explanation in the caption):
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-9vTh6DD/A
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> Isabelle:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-gRq72bT/A
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> The portrait of Isabelle is technically deficient, but I still like it as 
> it portrays her personality very well.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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