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Subject: [Leica] Warsaw ghetto commemoration in Copenhagen last Sunday
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Fri Apr 28 07:40:45 2006
References: <4451A0F1.2030402@nathanfoto.com>

Thank you Nathan.  Obviously with events in the Sudan and a few other places
the desire to prevent genocide is only if it is convenient or doesn't cut
off potential oil supplies to China.

You are a stronger man than I.  I find it almost unbearable to go with my
father to the places that we went to with my mother; the ghost of her memory
can be very strong.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 4/28/06, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
>
> Every year in late April, there is a brief ceremony held at the Jewish
> cemetery in Copenhagen. The occasion is the anniversary of the uprising
> in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 but is also a more general Holocaust
> commemoration. It is organised by the Polish Jews Association in
> Denmark, of which my late father was an active member; in fact, he often
> gave the main speech, including back in 2001, just two days after my
> mother died. This year, the ceremony was last Sunday, and I attended
> before driving back home. Many of the attendees are elderly, and most
> are Holocaust survivors themselves. Each year the congregation gets a
> little smaller; for me, the most glaring absence is obviously that of my
> father, but as I looked around there were many other faces missing...But
> as can be seen on the last few images, the memory is passed on to the
> young generations as well. A selection of 12 images is here:
> http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/1407543
>
> BTW, the inscription on the monument visible in several of the pictures
> means "Never Again" in Polish, Danish and Hebrew.
>
> Comments welcome as usual, and more normal PAW service will be resumed
> shortly.
>
> Nathan
>
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