Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]busy reading thanks simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> To: "LEG" <leica@freelists.org>; "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: [Leica] Auschwitz commemoration in Amsterdam > Approximately 102,000 Dutch Jews died in Auschwitz. As part of the > commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on > 27th January, the Dutch Auschwitz committee has organized a reading of > all the Dutch victims' names. The reading is done by volunteers, each of > whom reads about 50-100 names and the age at which the person died. It > started Friday evening and will continue until Thursday the 27th. The > reading takes place at the Verzetmuseum in Amsterdam until Tuesday (I > think) and moves on to Kamp Westerbork for the last couple of days. > > I went to Amsterdam early this morning to see a bit of the reading. It > is quite an emotional experience, both for the readers and for the > audience. The names are read in alphabetical order, they were doing the > E's when I was there. With permission of the organizers, I took a few > pictures: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexauschwitz.html > > I would highly recommend to the Dutch LUGgers to make time and visit the > reading. It goes on 24 hours a day, so it should be possible to find a > few minutes... > > Nathan > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > Stock photography available at: > http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >