[Leica] IMG: global family reunion

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

> The event of a lifetime, and you covered it beautifully!  Thanks for
> sharing your images with us.
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> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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> On 8/1/2016 12:36 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
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>> As I have mentioned in my PAW29 and in other contexts, from July 13th to
>> the 17th we had one of those rare family reunions in Le Mans. In more
>> normal families reunions are not that special, but in our case they are.
>> The last one was in 1999 in Israel, so it was time to have another one
>> while there are still members of the wartime generation among us. The main
>> purpose of this reunion was to spend time together, and, more than anything
>> else, to bring together the youngest generations and to transmit the family
>> history to them, with all its tragedy but eventual rebirth and triumph.
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>> We had three members of the “old” generation: my uncle Joseph from Le
>> Mans (whose 85th birthday was the occasion for the reunion), my uncle Zev
>> from Florida, and my aunt Rachel from Israel. Another uncle from Israel
>> could not make it, and of course my father, who was the “senior” figure in
>> 1999, is no longer with us.
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>> My generation was represented by me, two of my three US cousins, one of
>> my three Israeli cousins, and my two French cousins. Sadly, the Belgian
>> branch of the family could not make it. One of my US cousins was absent as
>> well.
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>> Finally, and most importantly, there were eight members of my children’s
>> generation, including my own Moses and Monica and their cousins from
>> France, Israel, the US and Italy.
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>> Including five spouses present, we were 22 altogether.
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>> There are 162 images in the gallery. The target audience is of course
>> mainly the family itself, but since I have made the effort to select and
>> edit them, I decided to share them with the list(s) as well:
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>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Wajsman-family-2016/
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>> Some explanations: after a few images from our 1400 km drive to France,
>> the first 100 or so images are from a place called Manoir du Gravier, an
>> old stately country home about 40 km south of Le Mans, converted into a
>> self-catering hotel where we stayed from July 14th to 16th. As you can see,
>> we spent the time eating, drinking, talking, cycling in the countryside,
>> playing pétanque, and just enjoying the place. We left the place in the
>> morning of the 16th and moved on to Le Mans, where the following day there
>> was a ceremony on the Place de la République to commemorate the roundup of
>> French Jews by the Vichy regime in the summer of 1942 (which, among other
>> things, resulted in Joseph’s parants and both sisters being sent to
>> Auschwitz where they perished). The main speaker was Joseph, and afterwards
>> there was a brunch in his house. Some of the young people in the images are
>> a group of 20 students from Florida International University in Miami who
>> had made the trip to France for the occasion. Joseph has a long-standing
>> connection with FIU. In the very last image Josph, visibly tired from the
>> morning’s efforts, is chatting with one of those students.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
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>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
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