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Subject: [Leica] OT: new French films tells my French family's history
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:22:27 -0800
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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
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> 
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