[Leica] OT: new French films tells my French family's history

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> 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
> 
I can't wait to see it!
Congrats!

If it doesn't play here I'll join a thing and order it somehow.
Netflix maybe. Whatever people do now.

Mark William Rabiner