Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, The portrait of Joseph is a reallly great portrait and picture, I really love it! Un abrazo Lluis > El 1 des 2015, a les 21:53, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> va > escriure: > > As some of you know, the Wajsman clan has a branch in France (and a branch > of that branch in Brussels). Actually, it was the first part of the family > that emigrated from Eastern Poland, when Shmuel Wajsman left Lublin for > Paris in 1920 in seach of a better life. He settled in to a working class > existence in Paris and had three children, one of whom was Joseph, who is > not technically my uncle (I think the correct term is granduncle or some > such, but is totally immaterial?he is simply ?mon vieux oncle? when we > speak). Joseph was born in 1930, and in 1942, like most other French Jews, > he and his family were rounded up and sent to a transit camp, from where > most were sent on to Auschwitz and perished there. But Joseph managed to > escape the camp with a friend and was hidden by villagers in the Loire > valley during the remainder of the war. He later settled in Le Mans where > he lives to this day in an old house in the centre with a great wine > cellar. In 2010, the story of his capture and escape in 1942 was made into > a movie, La Rafle, the premiere of which I had the pleasure to attend at a > theatre on Champs Elys?es in March of that year (the English title is The > Roundup). > > Anyway, yesterday I had meetings at the OECD in Paris which required me to > travel there on Sunday, and thanks to the French TGV it takes only 50 > minutes to travel from Gare Montparnasse in Paris to Le Mans, so I spend > Sunday night visiting Joseph. While I have seen him on various occasions > here in Alicante or in Brussels in recent years, I had not been to Le Mans > for 10 years or so. So it was nice to spend a quiet evening talking with > him, and also having dinner with his daughter (so my cousin) Isabelle who > lives just 100 meters away. Of course I took pictures: > > A portrait of Joseph in a pensive mood: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-pxv9nwz/A > > At his desk in his home office (explanation in the caption): > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-9vTh6DD/A > > Isabelle: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-gRq72bT/A > > The portrait of Isabelle is technically deficient, but I still like it as > it portrays her personality very well. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information