Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Re: [Leica] IMG: Lublin On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 4:56?PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days in Lublin in eastern Poland. I > was invited there by the local university to give some lectures at their > international summer school. That part went very well. But what was truly > special about this trip was to go back to my roots. My father was born in > Lublin. The city was more than 1/3 Jewish before the war, and it was the > major center of Jewish learning in Eastern Europe. All this came to an end > in 1939, and the vast majority of Lublin?s Jews perished in the Holocaust. > Among them was my father?s younger brother Natan, an uncle whom I never got > to know. So this was more than an ordinary tourist visit. At the same time, > Lublin is an attractive, vibrant town of 350,000 people, and it is a nice > illustration of the new Poland that has arisen from the ruins of Communism > after 1989. A gallery of 100 images is here: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Travel/Lublin/ > > Cheers, > Nathan =========================================================================== Nathan, your travel pictures continue to delight and amaze. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amagayneroshak at gmail.com <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt