[Leica] IMG: Kielce

[Don Dory]

The image of the young boy throwing rocks into the water is a wonderful
cross culture statement.   Good to know the origin of Hammond organs and
the placing of the bronze with the worker worked very well.

Last,  the sculpture of the nude torso chose the stone to be carved with
intelligence.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 2:48 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Kielce is a city of about 200,000 inhabitants in eastern Poland, about 130
> km north-east of Kraków. I spent a couple of days there this week because I
> was participating in a conference on IP rights, organised by the former
> head of the Polish Patent Office, now a professor at the Technical
> University of Kielce. I arrived there Sunday mid-day and departed Tuesday
> afternoon. Most of the pictures were taken during a walkabout in the town
> on Sunday afternoon.
>
> Kielce is a rather nondescript place. It is much smaller than the other
> Polish cities I usually visit—Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław—and this was my first
> ever visit there. The town is known, or notorious, for a terrible event in
> 1946, a pogrom of about 40 Jews who survived the Holocaust and came back to
> reclaim their homes in Kielce, only to be met with deadly hostility. This
> episode is a black spot on the history of Kielce and indeed of Poland. But
> still, the man who picked me up at Kraków airport, drove me the 130 km to
> the hotel in Kielce, and spent his entire Sunday afternoon showing me
> around was not even born when these terrible happenings took place, and yet
> he was clearly ashamed on behalf of his town. I did not sense the kind of
> civic pride that one might expect from someone who was born in and has
> lived his whole life in the same town.
>
> So here is a gallery showing Kielce as I saw it. Not pretty, but not
> horrible either. And the past is being acknowledged. As I sometimes say,
> this part of Europe has too much history.
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce/ <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Kielce/>
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> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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