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Subject: [OM] Nathan's PAD 28/06/2009: red on grey
From: usher99@xxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:26:30 -0400
Many layers of contrast in that image besides the colors.  Perhaps the 
woman in red represents a clean break from the grey/dark past.
That the scene was viewed through a Leica lens by this photog is also 
interesting.  I suspect Ernest Leitz would have approved.  He gets some 
gold stars spiriting away Jewish workers out of Germany.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/126992.html

Poland has a long sordid history of vicious anti-Semitism.  Ninety 
percent of their Jews were murdered in WWII often with the very willing 
cooperation of their neighbors.  As late a 1968 there were further 
(probably Soviet sponsored) pogroms against the remaining few Jews so 
that their were soon less than 5000 left of the 3 million pre -war 
population.  I saw a "Frontline" on PBS (public broadcasting) called 
"Shtetl" about 10 years ago  where a
a young Polish Gentile historian from Bransk interviewed neighbors of 
the previous Jews all 2500 of which were shipped to Treblinka's gas 
chambers via the villagers' horse wagons within 24 hours.   They blamed 
their current economic plight on the "Jews" as if all of them had not 
been reduced to ashes and  their property and possessions stolen many 
decades ago.
Perhaps things have changed.
Mike



The uprising lasted about 3 weeks. It ended
with the leaders holed up in a bunker, surrounded by the Germans. They
fought to the end, and finally the last group committed suicide rather
than be captured.

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