Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Apr 23, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > Yesterday was my last day in Copenhagen, and I spent part of it visiting a > wonderful event in the magnificent city hall of Copenhagen. It is part > exhibition, part event, about people who came to Denmark as refugees > during the past 50 years. A fuller description is here: > http://www.kit.dk/2016/index-ENGLISH.html. This afternoon we went to see > the exhibition and to meet some of the people depicted who were there to > tell their stories. > > A lady from Iraq. She told us that things are worse today than under > Saddam. It was a dictarship then and it is a dictatorship now, but it is > worse now because of the Islamic fundamenalist elements: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6L2b6D3/A > > A wonderful man from Somaliland, in Denmark since 1973. I cannot remember > meeting a person as positive as this guy, ever: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8cgWQwW/A > > A Vietnamese boat refugee, rescued by a a Danish merchant ship in 1975: > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-6C9xTFk/A > > Given that I too am not am not a native-born Dane, having come to this > wonderful place as a political refugee at the age of 11, this event really > resonated with me. Remarkable on so many levels fond regards, George http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.imagist.com http://www.linkedin.com/imagist