[Leica] Nathan's PAD 29/11/2015: my French family

[Tina Manley]

I like them all and don't find any of them technically deficient!!  If you
accomplish what you intended, and I think you did, the photo is perfect!

Tina

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> As some of you know, the Wajsman clan has a branch in France (and a branch
> of that branch in Brussels). Actually, it was the first part of the family
> that emigrated from Eastern Poland, when Shmuel Wajsman left Lublin for
> Paris in 1920 in seach of a better life. He settled in to a working class
> existence in Paris and had three children, one of whom was Joseph, who is
> not technically my uncle (I think the correct term is granduncle or some
> such, but is totally immaterial—he is simply “mon vieux oncle” when we
> speak). Joseph was born in 1930, and in 1942, like most other French Jews,
> he and his family were rounded up and sent to a transit camp, from where
> most were sent on to Auschwitz and perished there. But Joseph managed to
> escape the camp with a friend and was hidden by villagers in the Loire
> valley during the remainder of the war. He later settled in Le Mans where
> he lives to this day in an old house in the centre with a great wine
> cellar. In 2010, the story of his capture and escape in 1942 was made into
> a movie, La Rafle, the premiere of which I had the pleasure to attend at a
> theatre on Champs Elysées in March of that year (the English title is The
> Roundup).
>
> Anyway, yesterday I had meetings at the OECD in Paris which required me to
> travel there on Sunday, and thanks to the French TGV it takes only 50
> minutes to travel from Gare Montparnasse in Paris to Le Mans, so I spend
> Sunday night visiting Joseph. While I have seen him on various occasions
> here in Alicante or in Brussels in recent years, I had not been to Le Mans
> for 10 years or so. So it was nice to spend a quiet evening talking with
> him, and also having dinner with his daughter (so my cousin) Isabelle who
> lives just 100 meters away. Of course I took pictures:
>
> A portrait of Joseph in a pensive mood:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-pxv9nwz/A
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> At his desk in his home office (explanation in the caption):
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-9vTh6DD/A
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> Isabelle:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-gRq72bT/A
>
> The portrait of Isabelle is technically deficient, but I still like it as
> it portrays her personality very well.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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