Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is very moving, Peter. I hope you can find some way to share your history and memories so that we can remember history and not repeat it. Tina On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:55 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/