[Leica] Nathan's PAD 23/4/2017: a truly uplifting experience

[Jim Nichols]

Wonderful images, and you remind us once again that there have always 
been, and there always will be refugees.  We must just find better ways 
of solving their problems.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/23/2017 7:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Yesterday was my last day in Copenhagen, and I spent part of it visiting a wonderful event in the magnificent city hall of Copenhagen. It is part exhibition, part event, about people who came to Denmark as refugees during the past 50 years. A fuller description is here: http://www.kit.dk/2016/index-ENGLISH.html. This afternoon we went to see the exhibition and to meet some of the people depicted who were there to tell their stories.
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> A lady from Iraq. She told us that things are worse today than under Saddam. It was a dictarship then and it is a dictatorship now, but it is worse now because of the Islamic fundamenalist elements:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6L2b6D3/A
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> A wonderful man from Somaliland, in Denmark since 1973. I cannot remember meeting a person as positive as this guy, ever:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8cgWQwW/A
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> A Vietnamese boat refugee, rescued by a a Danish merchant ship in 1975:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6C9xTFk/A
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> Given that I too am not am not a native-born Dane, having come to this wonderful place as a political refugee at the age of 11, this event really resonated with me.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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