Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Oliver, Thanks for looking and the compliments. I must admit that I have neither read "The Pianist" nor seen the movie. I really don't know why. My father has seen it and liked it. But I guess I have heard so much Holocaust history from my father and my French uncle (who was rounded up in 1942 along with the other French Jews as a 12-year old, escaped from the internment camp but lost his entire family, and survived the war by being hidden by villagers in the Loire Valley) that I subconsciously avoid reading more about it. Incidentally, I *am* reading a WW2-related book at the moment, but it is Roy Jenkins' monumental biography of the man who saved Western civilization, Winston Churchill. Kind regards, Nathan Oliver Bryk wrote: > Nathan, these are very moving images, obviously best rendered in b&w, and > your summary of the events makes it clear that no one can ever hope to > adequately portray the reality of the horror and the suffering, regardless > of the medium. IMHO even Wladyslaw Szpilman's book, "The Pianist" and Roman > Polanski's film version, both set in the Ghetto, only hint at the awful > reality. > Oliver Bryk > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html