[Leica] IMG: From the Holocaust

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

In the Jewish calendar, today is Tisha B'Av, the traditional day of 
mourning for catastrophes that have befallen the Jewish people. In that 
spirit, here is the last surviving piece of documentation of my 
great-grandmother Anna Vogel, who was deported from her Paris apartment 
to the transit camp at Drancy, and then to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/14836604864/>
Here's a picture of Anna (center), with her husband Pinchas Vogel 
(right), who died during the Nazi occupation, and a close family friend, 
"Uncle Charlie," who survived the war in America and lived to hold the 
one year-old me before he died. My first and middle names are 
Anglifications of Pinchas and Anna.

Anna Vogel's name in the US Holocaust museum's database:
<http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5375133>
Database entry for her daughter Jeanne (my Nana's sister), who was 
deported and murdered earlier, along with her child.
<http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5319376>
More information on the deportation and extermination of French Jews:
<http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/deportfrance.html>

--Peter