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Subject: [Leica] Re: Nathan's PAW 52/53: Finishing the year
From: firkin at balhpl01.ncable.net.au (firkin)
Date: Wed Jan 5 16:26:40 2005
References: <41DC5B35.3020709@planet.nl>

Welcome home Nathan 

Thanks for the images: I'll be Donny doesn't look as good as Lone now ;-) I 
too had some fun times last year with "re-unions" and they can be 
frightening. The Pizza making images were my favourites from this group. 
Caught a typical moment. 

Cheers 

Nathan Wajsman writes: 

> 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 
> 
> 
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