[Leica] IMG: Lublin

[Don Dory]

The memorial structures out at the camp were very well envisioned by the
artist(s).  Thank you for showing us a lessor known camp and a less well
funded Polish city undergoing slow renovation.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:23 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I just came back from a brief vacation in south-eastern Poland yesterday.
> I have lots of photos to edit from a part of Poland which I had never
> visited before, but I start with the very last ones I took during the trip.
>
> On Monday, we drove from Rzeszów to Warsaw (from where we flew home
> yesterday). Along the way, we stopped in Lublin. Lublin is where my father
> was born as part of a large extended family, most of which, like most of
> Lublin’s Jews, perished in the Holocaust. Just outside the city is the
> contentration camp Majdanek, where most of Lublin’s Jews met their fate. We
> first went there, and then drove to the centre of Lublin to walk around a
> bit and to have lunch at a Jewish restaurant, next to which is my uncle
> Zev’s childhood home, where he lived from 1937 (when he was born) to 1940
> (when he, my father, their father and Zev’s mother fled to the Soviet Union
> and thereby saved their lives). Needless to say, it was the easiest of
> visits, but I am glad I went. This is something I have been meaning to do
> for a long time.
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> I was not in Lublin very long, just a few hours, but a small gallery of 30
> images is here:
>
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/lublin_aug2018/index.html
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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