[Leica] Nathan's PAW 5: A world that disappeared

[joelct at singnet.com.sg (Joseph Low)]

            Classic and nostalgic - thank you for sharing them

            Joseph Low / Singapore

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
Nathan Wajsman
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 06:07
To: LEG; Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 5: A world that disappeared

I took some pictures this past week. But the ones I am going to show you
were not taken by me. In fact, they were taken 60 to 75 years ago by
unknown photographers in Poland; but these images were my most important
photographic activity this weekend.

Some background: during the holidays my sister and I went through my
late father's photo albums. She did most of the work, arranging the
pictures by topic and period. My intent is to scan the more important
images and make CDs for each branch of my global family. I started
scanning today, and here is a small sample. It is of course quite an
emotional experience for me to go through these pictures, not only
because they include my father, but also because they represent a world
that was so brutally destroyed.

The first picture is of my father (on the left), with his mother and
younger brother Natan (yes, I am named after him). The picture is
undated but it must have been taken around 1935, when my father was 10
and his brother 8. In late 1939, when he was 12, Natan and his mother
were murdered by the Germans in Lublin.
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5.jpg

Here is my father, again with Natan and their father Moses (after whom
MY son is named). This picture was taken in Lublin in 1937. It is a
wallet-sized print, and judging by its condition my father must have
carried it with him in his wallet for many years:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt1.jpg

Here are some relatives of my father, photographed in Lublin in 1930.
All four people in this picture perished in the Holocaust:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt2.jpg

Most of the pre-war pictures are portraits, taken in a studio. But this
one is a street scene from Lublin's Jewish quarter, some time in the
1930s (I am not sure who the woman in the picture is):
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt3.jpg

And finally, my father as a 20-year old soldier in the Polish army,
photographed shortly after the end of the war in 1945. He is the guy in
the middle front row, with the medals on his uniform:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt4.jpg

These pictures are not my work, so I am not really looking for
critique...just wanted to share them with the group. The complete PAW
index is at: http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2005.html

Nathan
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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
Prints for sale at: http://www.photodeluge.com


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