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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 5: A world that disappeared
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Feb 6 16:59:22 2005

Nathan,
I am glad you were able to share your lost history, faces from the lost
past.  I am sure that you will put an album together for your children,
memory's of their history so your father and his family can be
remembered.

I know that my daughter was fascinated with the pictures of her past.
Who knew that her curmudgeon grandfather was a dashing soldier in the
African and Italian campaigns?  Who knew that her great grandmother was
more adventuresome than she was?  Family photographs can be a real boon
to the family.

Thank you.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 5:07 PM
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
-- 
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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