Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 4, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > You remember well, Steve! When Joseph comes to visit, the first order of > business is to look for a suitable boules pitch. There are plenty around > Alicante, including near my home, so this spring when he and my uncle from > Florida visited, we had our 3 Nations Championship: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/P?tanque-in-Alicante/7561180_HAEz4#488606861_T3Jn3 > > You are right about the impact on the French psyche--because most of the > rounding up was not done by Germans but by French police and gendarmerie, > in the service of the Vichy government. and ongoing great disagreement, controversy, and guilt over all of this... so the entire Vichy period is riddle with doubt and guilt... Steve > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > >> >> On Jan 3, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> >>> One of the images that is included in the FOM II project is this >>> portrait from 2001 of my uncle Joseph Weismann from Le Mans: >>> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/20.jpg >> >> >> and I recall a photo of him playing boules...somewhere? >> >> also FOM2 ? >>> >>> He still lives in Le Mans, still plays boulles and still enjoys the good >>> things in life. One of his principal activities in retirement is to be >>> there for his family, and to speak about the Holocaust and his own >>> experiences as a survivor to groups, especially children, around France. >>> He was arrested in 1942 along with all other Parisian Jews, separated >>> from his parents and sisters (all of whom perished in Auschwitz), fled >>> the camp with another 11-year old boy and thus avoided deportation to >>> Poland, and spent the rest of the war being hidden by people in the >>> Loire valley, where he settled after the war. >>> >>> Now a film with a fairly significant budget (?20M or something like >>> that) has been made about his story: >>> http://www.larafle-lefilm.com/ >> >> >> this is an episode that lies deep in the French psyche, this movie has >> great potential to be powerful and well done, I will look for it. >> >> Steve >> >>> >>> It will be out in March. No idea about releases in non-French language >>> markets, but I am sure they will happen. >>> >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> http://www.nathanfoto.com >>> >>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information