April, 19th, The day of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and April 27th, Holocaust Remembrance Day – in memory of Janusz Korczak, 1878, Warsaw – 1942, Treblinka. I also remember my friend Jacob Lofman, 1911-2002, a Polish-born photojournalist and an intellectual force who maintained a lifelong interest in Jewish history and culture, a man who was kind and generous enough to share some of his memories and wisdom with me, a German expatriate at the time we met (1997). Jacob would have liked this article “Not Praying in Auschwitz”. Thank you, Jacob, it was a true privilege to sit in your kitchen and have tea with you.

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