Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Peter, Thanks for sharing these. Two things, however: the third link points to the same image as the second. And: while the museum may not have reopened until 1995, Communism fell in 1989/90. These photos remind me of the Heydrich assassination?here was one top Nazi who got what he deserved early on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich Of course, it did not change the course of the war, and the consequences for the Czech people were terrible, but still. 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 > On 16 Aug 2017, at 08:57, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Perhaps it is no coincidence that I came to these pictures today, just > after events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Here are three photographs > from the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, which is both a museum and Holocaust > memorial as well as a working synagogue. > > Part of the memorial roster of 78,000 Czech Jews murdered by the Nazis. > After the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring, the exhibit > was closed. It was not reopened until the fall of Communism in 1995. > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/36433007342/in/dateposted-public/> > > Detail of the above: > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/> > > Children's drawings from the Terezin (Theresienstadt) transit camp, which > is about 35 km from Prague. > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/36433007102/in/dateposted-public/> > > --Peter > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ >