RE: Nathan's PAW 5: A world that disappeared
- From: "paul durrant" <stormbikes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 05:57:39 +1100
Thanks for sharing these with us Nathan, they must mean a great
deal to you.
Paul Durrant
From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@xxxxxxxxx>
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To: LEG <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,Leica Users Group <lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Nathan's PAW 5: A world that disappeared
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:06:47 +0100
I took some pictures this past week. But the ones I am going to show you
were not taken by me. In fact, they were taken 60 to 75 years ago by
unknown photographers in Poland; but these images were my most important
photographic activity this weekend.
Some background: during the holidays my sister and I went through my late
father's photo albums. She did most of the work, arranging the pictures by
topic and period. My intent is to scan the more important images and make
CDs for each branch of my global family. I started scanning today, and here
is a small sample. It is of course quite an emotional experience for me to
go through these pictures, not only because they include my father, but
also because they represent a world that was so brutally destroyed.
The first picture is of my father (on the left), with his mother and
younger brother Natan (yes, I am named after him). The picture is undated
but it must have been taken around 1935, when my father was 10 and his
brother 8. In late 1939, when he was 12, Natan and his mother were murdered
by the Germans in Lublin.
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5.jpg
Here is my father, again with Natan and their father Moses (after whom MY
son is named). This picture was taken in Lublin in 1937. It is a
wallet-sized print, and judging by its condition my father must have
carried it with him in his wallet for many years:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt1.jpg
Here are some relatives of my father, photographed in Lublin in 1930. All
four people in this picture perished in the Holocaust:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt2.jpg
Most of the pre-war pictures are portraits, taken in a studio. But this one
is a street scene from Lublin's Jewish quarter, some time in the 1930s (I
am not sure who the woman in the picture is):
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt3.jpg
And finally, my father as a 20-year old soldier in the Polish army,
photographed shortly after the end of the war in 1945. He is the guy in the
middle front row, with the medals on his uniform:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_5alt4.jpg
These pictures are not my work, so I am not really looking for
critique...just wanted to share them with the group. The complete PAW index
is at: http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2005.html
Nathan
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Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands
General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com
Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com
Stock photography available at:
http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman
Prints for sale at: http://www.photodeluge.com
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