Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Always nice to virtually walk through places that I was not even aware actually existed before seeing this set! Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:26?AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days in Lublin in eastern Poland. I > was invited there by the local university to give some lectures at their > international summer school. That part went very well. But what was truly > special about this trip was to go back to my roots. My father was born in > Lublin. The city was more than 1/3 Jewish before the war, and it was the > major center of Jewish learning in Eastern Europe. All this came to an end > in 1939, and the vast majority of Lublin?s Jews perished in the Holocaust. > Among them was my father?s younger brother Natan, an uncle whom I never got > to know. So this was more than an ordinary tourist visit. At the same time, > Lublin is an attractive, vibrant town of 350,000 people, and it is a nice > illustration of the new Poland that has arisen from the ruins of Communism > after 1989. A gallery of 100 images is here: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Lublin/ > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information