Revisiting a killing field in Poland
Revisiting a killing field in Poland
By Sam Roberts
The New York Times/International Herald Tribune
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2005
LUBLIN, Poland Adam Frydman shut his heavy-lidded eyes and vividly recalled his first glimpse of this unplowed field 62 years ago. He was 20 and had just arrived from the Warsaw ghetto with his father and brother. He imagined hundreds of Polish Jews huddled behind barbed wire fences. He heard barking dogs. He inhaled the smell of death. When he got his bearings, he pointed unambiguously.
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I’m a gentile who went on an Elderhostel “Jewish Heritage in Poland” tour in 2001. I was deeply moved by this two week experience, and this article was of interest to me as we had visited Maidanek while there. I’m an amateur photographer and I took a whole series of photos on my trip, including Lublin and Maidanek. These can be viewed on my website: http://www.pixbyalex.com