Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 -- 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