Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back from holiday, I am slowly catching up. My last PAW from 2004 takes us to my hometown in Denmark, ?rhus, and then to the city where I was born, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland. I went to ?rhus just before Christmas to spend a couple of days with my best friend Lars. However, this trip was different, because I also met up with some classmates from primary school, whom I had not seen since the 1970s. The main picture is one of those people. Lone was the prettiest girl in our class, but unfortunately her heart belonged to Donny Osmond (we are talking 1976 here, folks!). Here she is, 27 years later: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52.jpg That evening, Lars made pizza for dinner, and his little niece helped out. Here she's got something on her hands: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt1.jpg ...and here she is disposing of it as a child would do: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt2.jpg I then went on to Poland. Like some other cities in the former Communist block, Wroclaw is one big construction zone: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt3.jpg I spent Christmas and New Year with my sister and her husband. One of our tasks was to go through my father's photo albums and decide what to keep--not an easy job: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt4.jpg During a walk on Wroclaw's central square, Rynek, I spotted these two ladies in conversation: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt5.jpg Finally, we visited the Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw. The city belonged to Germany until 1945, so all graves from the pre-war period were inscribed in German (and Hebrew); then a long break, until graves inscribed in Polish begin to appear around 1947-48. But the strangest (for me, anyway) experience was to look at the World War I memorial, with the names of the Wroclaw/Breslau Jews who had fallen on the battlefield, fighting for Germany: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_52alt6.jpg The complete PAW index is at: http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2004.html and comments/critique are always welcome and appreciated. First PAWs of 2005 will be posted tomorrow. Nathan -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com