[Leica] IMG: global family reunion

[Douglas Barry]

That is a very impressive bunch of photographs. Your uncle Joseph looks 
great for 85, and is a brilliant subject. You all certainly seem to have 
have a very good time, and the catering looks impressive. Was that young 
pike actually caught in the net shown?

On the second lot of images around the Manoir, I can see why everybody looks 
happy in the previous lot as you certainly picked a pleasant place to decamp 
to!

Douglas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" 
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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 6:36 AM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: global family reunion


> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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