[Leica] IMG: Lublin

Alan Magayne-Roshak amagayneroshak at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 22:44:42 PDT 2023


Re: [Leica] IMG: Lublin

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:
>
> https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Lublin/
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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Nathan, your travel pictures continue to delight and amaze.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
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