RE: Warsaw ghetto commemoration in Copenhagen last Sunday

Hi ..  Thanks for taking and posting the photos.  A dear friend of mine
lost some relatives in the ghetto, in a situation that was vividly
described in a scene in The Pianist.  I try not to think of such things,
but it's good to be reminded of them every now and then.

For anyone interested, I'd highly recommend the book, "In the Warsaw
Ghetto: Summer 1941"  It's a compilation of photos made by a German soldier
that were unknown for about 50 years, when the film was finally discovered
and processed.  The photos are accompanied by text taken from diaries and
letters of the Jewish population.  

Shel



> [Original Message]
> From: Nathan Wajsman 

> Every year in late April, there is a brief ceremony held at the Jewish 
> cemetery in Copenhagen. The occasion is the anniversary of the uprising 
> in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 but is also a more general Holocaust 
> commemoration. It is organised by the Polish Jews Association in 
> Denmark, of which my late father was an active member; in fact, he often 
> gave the main speech, including back in 2001, just two days after my 
> mother died. This year, the ceremony was last Sunday, and I attended 
> before driving back home. Many of the attendees are elderly, and most 
> are Holocaust survivors themselves. Each year the congregation gets a 
> little smaller; for me, the most glaring absence is obviously that of my 
> father, but as I looked around there were many other faces missing...But 
> as can be seen on the last few images, the memory is passed on to the 
> young generations as well. A selection of 12 images is here:
> http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/1407543
>
> BTW, the inscription on the monument visible in several of the pictures 
> means "Never Again" in Polish, Danish and Hebrew.
>
> Comments welcome as usual, and more normal PAW service will be resumed 
> shortly.



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