Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, This is very moving. What a lovely photograph of your great grandmother, when the world was a more innocent place. At least you have something tangible to remember her by. Best wishes, Charlie www.charlie-chan.co.uk On 6 Aug 2014, at 00:14, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > (oops, left off a link, sending again) > > 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. > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/14652291980/> > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information