Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the images that is included in the FOM II project is this portrait from 2001 of my uncle Joseph Weismann from Le Mans: http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/20.jpg He still lives in Le Mans, still plays boulles and still enjoys the good things in life. One of his principal activities in retirement is to be there for his family, and to speak about the Holocaust and his own experiences as a survivor to groups, especially children, around France. He was arrested in 1942 along with all other Parisian Jews, separated from his parents and sisters (all of whom perished in Auschwitz), fled the camp with another 11-year old boy and thus avoided deportation to Poland, and spent the rest of the war being hidden by people in the Loire valley, where he settled after the war. Now a film with a fairly significant budget (?20M or something like that) has been made about his story: http://www.larafle-lefilm.com/ It will be out in March. No idea about releases in non-French language markets, but I am sure they will happen. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog