Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1 Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > The event of a lifetime, and you covered it beautifully! Thanks for > sharing your images with us. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > On 8/1/2016 12:36 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> As I have mentioned in my PAW29 and in other contexts, from July 13th to >> the 17th we had one of those rare family reunions in Le Mans. In more >> normal families reunions are not that special, but in our case they are. >> The last one was in 1999 in Israel, so it was time to have another one >> while there are still members of the wartime generation among us. The main >> purpose of this reunion was to spend time together, and, more than >> anything >> else, to bring together the youngest generations and to transmit the >> family >> history to them, with all its tragedy but eventual rebirth and triumph. >> >> We had three members of the ?old? generation: my uncle Joseph from Le >> Mans (whose 85th birthday was the occasion for the reunion), my uncle Zev >> from Florida, and my aunt Rachel from Israel. Another uncle from Israel >> could not make it, and of course my father, who was the ?senior? figure in >> 1999, is no longer with us. >> >> My generation was represented by me, two of my three US cousins, one of >> my three Israeli cousins, and my two French cousins. Sadly, the Belgian >> branch of the family could not make it. One of my US cousins was absent as >> well. >> >> Finally, and most importantly, there were eight members of my children?s >> generation, including my own Moses and Monica and their cousins from >> France, Israel, the US and Italy. >> >> Including five spouses present, we were 22 altogether. >> >> There are 162 images in the gallery. The target audience is of course >> mainly the family itself, but since I have made the effort to select and >> edit them, I decided to share them with the list(s) as well: >> >> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Wajsman-family-2016/ >> >> Some explanations: after a few images from our 1400 km drive to France, >> the first 100 or so images are from a place called Manoir du Gravier, an >> old stately country home about 40 km south of Le Mans, converted into a >> self-catering hotel where we stayed from July 14th to 16th. As you can >> see, >> we spent the time eating, drinking, talking, cycling in the countryside, >> playing p?tanque, and just enjoying the place. We left the place in the >> morning of the 16th and moved on to Le Mans, where the following day there >> was a ceremony on the Place de la R?publique to commemorate the roundup of >> French Jews by the Vichy regime in the summer of 1942 (which, among other >> things, resulted in Joseph?s parants and both sisters being sent to >> Auschwitz where they perished). The main speaker was Joseph, and >> afterwards >> there was a brunch in his house. Some of the young people in the images >> are >> a group of 20 students from Florida International University in Miami who >> had made the trip to France for the occasion. Joseph has a long-standing >> connection with FIU. In the very last image Josph, visibly tired from the >> morning?s efforts, is chatting with one of those students. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> 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 >