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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