[Leica] IMG: From the Holocaust (with photo link)

[Peter Klein]

Thank you, everyone who responded.  It's odd, I've had the copy of the 
Drancy "receipt" since 1998, when we visited Paris and were shown the 
original in the archives of the Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu. But 
I've not been able to bring myself to scan it until this week. I wanted 
my extended family to see it. But also, I'm reminded of the saying that 
it is easier to comprehend the suffering of one than the suffering of a 
thousand, or of six million.

George: Yes, these objects have a great deal of power to evoke memory 
and emotion.

Nathan, it's quite possible that our families knew each other. One of my 
grandmother's brothers sang in the choir at the central Paris Synagogue 
before WWI, in which he died. My grandfather lived off Rue de Rivoli, 
and my grandmothers' family lived on Rue des Jardins Saint Paul, later 
on Passage Basfois, north of where Opera Bastille is now.

Lluis, many of us get emotional about these things. Given what your 
country went through, you understand as well as anyone.

Susan, Tina: Yes, the Holocaust shows us what people are capable of at 
their absolute worst, when the "other" has been reduced to sub-human by 
hate.  There have been and continue to be other, less massive or 
efficient genocides. But I must say, one of the things it teaches me is 
that there has to be a place where Jewish people do not have to depend 
on others' good graces for their survival.

--Peter


 > Thank you Peter for sharing with us these horrible documents of the 
history.
 > I?m not indifferent at all when I see this, and all of such things 
made me
 > really emoted.
 >
 > ?.
 >
 > Best wishes
 > Lluis
 >
 >
 > El 06/08/2014, a las 01:14, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> 
escribi?:
 >
 > > (oops, left off a link, sending again)
 > >
 > > 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.
 > > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/14652291980/>
 > >
 > > 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
 > >