[Leica] Nathan's PAD 20/6/2023: a walk in Lublin

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

As usual a grand tour of someplace I will probably never see in person.
 Thank you.

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, 6:05 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I am spending 3 days in Lublin, Poland. The main reason is that I have
> been invited to give a couple of lectures during the summer school of the
> local university here, but it also gives me the chance to explore the city
> where my father was born and where he lived the first 14 years of his life,
> until World War II broke out and his world was destroyed. Before the war,
> Lublin was one of Europe?s main centers of Jewish learning, with between
> 1/3 and half of the city?s population Jewish, at least 40,000 people. Only
> a few hundred survived the Holocaust (my father among them), and what was
> once the Jewish quarter only exists in photographs and memories. With the
> exception of a couple of streets, it was razed to the ground in 1942-43.
>
> Today, Lublin is an attractive, vibrant city of about 350,000 inhabitants,
> many of whom are students since the city is the main center of higher
> education in eastern Poland. Here are five images from yesterday?s walks
> around Lublin.
>
> Lublin Castle. On the right is a grassy area, which used to be Krawiecka
> Street (Tailor Street). My father lived in no. 11 on that street:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vC3znqG/A
>
> A large yeshiva was completed in 1930. The Germans used it for their
> purposes during the occupation, the subsequent Communist government turned
> into part of the medical university. It was returned to the Jewish
> community in the early 2000s and is now a hotel catering mainly to
> religious Jewish visitors to Lublin, and it also contains a synagogue:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-th7Fnhp/A
>
> The synagogue in the former yeshiva. The Lublin congregation is small, and
> it is part of the larger Warsaw congregation, about 2 hours away:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-pDwcwVs/A
>
> The Ukrainian consulate in Lublin, expressing its gratitude. Lublin,
> beeing in the east of the country, has taken in a large number of Ukrainian
> refugees:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-m4j9XDz/A
>
> In the afternoon, I sat down for a pint at one of the many bars on
> Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street, and looked at the human traffic passing by:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-CJx93t4/A
>
> And in the evening, on my way back to the hotel, this delightful scene:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-WRH7jZx/A
>
> And presiding over it all is J?zef Pi?sudski, Poland?s first
> post-independence leader (the country was partitioned among Prussia,
> Austria-Hungary and Russia in 1795 and regained its independence after
> World War I in 1918):
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-XQptN5x/A
>
> More to come.
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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