[Leica] IMG: From the Holocaust

[Tina Manley]

That is very moving, Peter. I hope you can find some way to share your
history and memories so that we can remember history and not repeat it.

Tina


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> In the Jewish calendar, today is Tisha B'Av, the traditional day of
> mourning for catastrophes that have befallen the Jewish people. In that
> spirit, here is the last surviving piece of documentation of my
> great-grandmother Anna Vogel, who was deported from her Paris apartment to
> the transit camp at Drancy, and then to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/14836604864/>
> Here's a picture of Anna (center), with her husband Pinchas Vogel (right),
> who died during the Nazi occupation, and a close family friend, "Uncle
> Charlie," who survived the war in America and lived to hold the one
> year-old me before he died. My first and middle names are Anglifications of
> Pinchas and Anna.
>
> Anna Vogel's name in the US Holocaust museum's database:
> <http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5375133>
> Database entry for her daughter Jeanne (my Nana's sister), who was
> deported and murdered earlier, along with her child.
> <http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5319376>
> More information on the deportation and extermination of French Jews:
> <http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/deportfrance.html>
>
> --Peter
>
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