[Leica] Warsaw ghetto commemoration in Copenhagen last Sunday

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Nathan:

As usual, some very good photos from you.

Jim


Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Every year in late April, there is a brief ceremony held at the Jewish 
> cemetery in Copenhagen. The occasion is the anniversary of the uprising 
> in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 but is also a more general Holocaust 
> commemoration. It is organised by the Polish Jews Association in 
> Denmark, of which my late father was an active member; in fact, he often 
> gave the main speech, including back in 2001, just two days after my 
> mother died. This year, the ceremony was last Sunday, and I attended 
> before driving back home. Many of the attendees are elderly, and most 
> are Holocaust survivors themselves. Each year the congregation gets a 
> little smaller; for me, the most glaring absence is obviously that of my 
> father, but as I looked around there were many other faces missing...But 
> as can be seen on the last few images, the memory is passed on to the 
> young generations as well. A selection of 12 images is here:
> http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/1407543
> 
> BTW, the inscription on the monument visible in several of the pictures 
> means "Never Again" in Polish, Danish and Hebrew.
> 
> Comments welcome as usual, and more normal PAW service will be resumed 
> shortly.
> 
> Nathan
>