Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > 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 and I recall a photo of him playing boules...somewhere? also FOM2 ? > > 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/ this is an episode that lies deep in the French psyche, this movie has great potential to be powerful and well done, I will look for it. Steve > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information