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

[Douglas Barry]

Don't much agree with that statement of the world being a more innocent 
place back then, Charlie. Currently reading the "The Europe I Saw" by 
Elizabeth Wiskemann about her travels amidst a waterfall of once meaningful 
names during the interwar years. Fascinating piece that reflects the class 
structure, amoral greed, and fervent nationalism that drop kicked Europe 
into conflict and both dispassionate and passionate savagery. Unfortunately, 
we never learn.

Hey, wasn't there a non-photographic forum side by side with this list :-)

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Chan" <topoxforddoc at btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: From the Holocaust (with photo link)


> Peter,
>
> This is very moving. What a lovely photograph of your great grandmother, 
> when the world was a more innocent place. At least you have something 
> tangible to remember her by.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Charlie
> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
>
> On 6 Aug 2014, at 00:14, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
>
>> (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
>>
>>
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