Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW #29 - Warszawa Ghetto

[Nathan Wajsman <n.wajsman@chello.nl>]

Sorry everyone, this was meant to be a private reply to Oliver, I screwed up.
Please do not use this to start a thread about any of the topics mentioned.
Thanks.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> 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
> >
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