Delightful! Thanks for that story, Nathan.
Chris
> On 23 Apr 2019, at 20:14, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yesterday was my last day in Copenhagen, with my flight leaving at 4:30 pm.
> After my sister and I checked out of our hotel in the morning, we went to the
> place of our friends Marek and Tamara. Two remarkable people, who came to
> Denmark around the time as my parents and me (early 1970s). They are now in
> their late 60s. As far as I can remember, they have spent countless hours on
> volunteer work among the Polish Jews in Denmark, most of whom are now in
> their 80s and 90s, with their numbers rapidly dwindling. On a personal level,
> they were of enormous help to my parents when they moved to Copenhagen from
> Aarhus in the late 1980s, and especially to my father during the 3 years he
> lived alone as a widower. In short, two wonderful people.
>
> While we chatted before going to lunch at a nearby restaurant, I took a few
> portraits of them with the 90mm Tele-Elmarit mounted on my Fuji XE2. It was
> quite fitting to use a lens that manufactured around the time we started our
> new life in Denmark about 45 years ago.
>
> Marek, in a serious moment:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-LZKqSqC/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-LZKqSqC/A>
>
> Tamara, smiling:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MJ5fQFK/A
> <https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MJ5fQFK/A>
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