[Leica] IMG: From the Holocaust

[skalte at icloud.com (Susan Ryan)]

Peter,

I am very sad right now and don't know what else say after looking at these 
images. The sadness transcends time, place, ethnicity, religion.

Sue

> On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:
> 
> In the Jewish calendar, today is Tisha B'Av, the traditional day of 
> mourning for catastrophes that have befallen the Jewish people. In that 
> spirit, here is the last surviving piece of documentation of my 
> great-grandmother Anna Vogel, who was deported from her Paris apartment to 
> the transit camp at Drancy, and then to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/14836604864/>
> Here's a picture of Anna (center), with her husband Pinchas Vogel (right), 
> who died during the Nazi occupation, and a close family friend, "Uncle 
> Charlie," who survived the war in America and lived to hold the one 
> year-old me before he died. My first and middle names are Anglifications 
> of Pinchas and Anna.
> 
> Anna Vogel's name in the US Holocaust museum's database:
> <http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5375133>
> Database entry for her daughter Jeanne (my Nana's sister), who was 
> deported and murdered earlier, along with her child.
> <http://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=5319376>
> More information on the deportation and extermination of French Jews:
> <http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/deportfrance.html>
> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
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