[Leica] IMG: Lublin

[Don Dory]

Your birthplace is just getting better from the last set of images you
showed a while back.  Now if the Ukranians could just lure the bear east
like the mural showed the world might not be facing famine in the coming
year(s) especially north africa that depended so much on Ukranian wheat.
The wheat harvest in the US seems to be off this year due to low rain.

On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 4:56 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days in Lublin in eastern Poland. I
> was invited there by the local university to give some lectures at their
> international summer school. That part went very well. But what was truly
> special about this trip was to go back to my roots. My father was born in
> Lublin. The city was more than 1/3 Jewish before the war, and it was the
> major center of Jewish learning in Eastern Europe. All this came to an end
> in 1939, and the vast majority of Lublin’s Jews perished in the Holocaust.
> Among them was my father’s younger brother Natan, an uncle whom I never got
> to know. So this was more than an ordinary tourist visit. At the same time,
> Lublin is an attractive, vibrant town of 350,000 people, and it is a nice
> illustration of the new Poland that has arisen from the ruins of Communism
> after 1989. A gallery of 100 images is here:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Lublin/
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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