That was very sobering, Nathan. It’s troubling to think of Poland apparently
moving right, although I know that it’s a complicated situation.
Chris
> On 22 Aug 2018, at 08:23, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just came back from a brief vacation in south-eastern Poland yesterday. I
> have lots of photos to edit from a part of Poland which I had never visited
> before, but I start with the very last ones I took during the trip.
>
> On Monday, we drove from Rzeszów to Warsaw (from where we flew home
> yesterday). Along the way, we stopped in Lublin. Lublin is where my father
> was born as part of a large extended family, most of which, like most of
> Lublin’s Jews, perished in the Holocaust. Just outside the city is the
> contentration camp Majdanek, where most of Lublin’s Jews met their fate. We
> first went there, and then drove to the centre of Lublin to walk around a bit
> and to have lunch at a Jewish restaurant, next to which is my uncle Zev’s
> childhood home, where he lived from 1937 (when he was born) to 1940 (when he,
> my father, their father and Zev’s mother fled to the Soviet Union and thereby
> saved their lives). Needless to say, it was the easiest of visits, but I am
> glad I went. This is something I have been meaning to do for a long time.
>
> I was not in Lublin very long, just a few hours, but a small gallery of 30
> images is here:
>
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/lublin_aug2018/index.html
> <http://www.frozenlight.eu/lublin_aug2018/index.html>
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