[Leica] Nathan's PAD 13/10/2020: my sister's birthday

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

The first one!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:37 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> The reason I went to Poland this week was to celebrate my sister’s
> birthday with her and my brother-in-law. So we started the day with the
> traditional birthday breakfast, beginning with a glass of champagne. My
> sister is 15 years older than me, but I think she is keeping well:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6PD9PHf/A
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> After breakfast, we went for a walk on a nearby island on the river Odra
> called Ostrów Tumski, which houses Wrocław’s cathedral, the archbishop’s
> residence and several other church buildings. It is a beautiful, peaceful
> spot to go for a walk. But in the spring of 1945 it looked quite different,
> as documented by photographs affixed to the buildings:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6L2v6Jg/A
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> Wrocław (Breslau in German) was considered by Hitler as one of the most
> important cities in the Third Reich, and the city was ordered not to
> surrender as the Red Army was approaching. By February 1945 the city was
> surrounded and the situation hopeless but still the suicidal defense was
> continued, and Breslau surrendered only on 6 May 1945, just two days before
> the end of the war. As a result, the city was almost completely destroyed,
> just like Berlin. Many if not most of the old buildings one sees today are
> reconstructions to varying degree.
>
> This is what the spot in the previous photo looks like today:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-2LrmzMh/A
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
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