[Leica] IMG: Lublin

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Always nice to virtually walk through places that I was not even aware
actually existed before seeing this set!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:26 AM 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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