Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The event of a lifetime, and you covered it beautifully! Thanks for sharing your images with us. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 8/1/2016 12:36 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > As I have mentioned in my PAW29 and in other contexts, from July 13th to > the 17th we had one of those rare family reunions in Le Mans. In more > normal families reunions are not that special, but in our case they are. > The last one was in 1999 in Israel, so it was time to have another one > while there are still members of the wartime generation among us. The main > purpose of this reunion was to spend time together, and, more than > anything else, to bring together the youngest generations and to transmit > the family history to them, with all its tragedy but eventual rebirth and > triumph. > > We had three members of the ?old? generation: my uncle Joseph from Le Mans > (whose 85th birthday was the occasion for the reunion), my uncle Zev from > Florida, and my aunt Rachel from Israel. Another uncle from Israel could > not make it, and of course my father, who was the ?senior? figure in 1999, > is no longer with us. > > My generation was represented by me, two of my three US cousins, one of my > three Israeli cousins, and my two French cousins. Sadly, the Belgian > branch of the family could not make it. One of my US cousins was absent as > well. > > Finally, and most importantly, there were eight members of my children?s > generation, including my own Moses and Monica and their cousins from > France, Israel, the US and Italy. > > Including five spouses present, we were 22 altogether. > > There are 162 images in the gallery. The target audience is of course > mainly the family itself, but since I have made the effort to select and > edit them, I decided to share them with the list(s) as well: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Wajsman-family-2016/ > > Some explanations: after a few images from our 1400 km drive to France, > the first 100 or so images are from a place called Manoir du Gravier, an > old stately country home about 40 km south of Le Mans, converted into a > self-catering hotel where we stayed from July 14th to 16th. As you can > see, we spent the time eating, drinking, talking, cycling in the > countryside, playing p?tanque, and just enjoying the place. We left the > place in the morning of the 16th and moved on to Le Mans, where the > following day there was a ceremony on the Place de la R?publique to > commemorate the roundup of French Jews by the Vichy regime in the summer > of 1942 (which, among other things, resulted in Joseph?s parants and both > sisters being sent to Auschwitz where they perished). The main speaker was > Joseph, and afterwards there was a brunch in his house. Some of the young > people in the images are a group of 20 students from Florida International > University in Miami who had made the trip to France for the occasion. > Joseph has a long-standing connection with FIU. In the very last image > Josph, visibly tired from the morning?s efforts, is chatting with one of > those students. > > 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 >