A trip to La Puebla de los Infantes

    Last weekend I drove my lady to La Puebla de los Infantes.

    She had planned to meet with her cousins whom she had not seen since her aunt's funeral. So, after greeting her family members, I settled on with her to eat and in that way let them talk in privacy and I had time to take some pictures of the town.

Prisioner nº 32269 

In O Martírio de Ravensbrück, José Milhazes stops to give an account of the characteristics of this German concentration / extermination camp. Located 90 kilometres north of Berlin, Leida had the 'privilege' of being the first of a list of Estonian inmates who - heaped in a cattle train - travelled for seven days to the terrible scene of stinking crimes.

Os amados que dormem na eternidade

The longest chapter of the book is illustrated with photographs

    Casa clandestina de Ida e de Leida

Lista de envio para Ravensbrück. Leida Holm é a primeira

Gulag Vorkuta

Prisioneiros constroem camino-de-ferro

Campo de concentração de Ravensbrück

Barracão e crematório do campo de concentração de Ravensbrück

Residentes de Leninegrado recolhem agua de un cano destruído na Avenida Nevsky durante o cerco nazi a cidade. URSS,1941

     

Moroccan women in the strawberry fields

     It is born from a humble plant that you have to help to get up by putting some suspenders —at least that's how dad used to grow them in the sunniest corner of our farm— to take a little height and ventilate its tendrils and leaves. It is a delicious food.

Other circles

     Dear Fran,

     Today I have realized how little we value the people around us; that are our neighbours and whom we crossed the street for years and years with and that, suddenly, one day we miss.

Art. 58-8, terror

Gulag (Glavnoie Upravlenie Lagerei), acronym of Main Administration of Camps.

Photographs of the Blumthal family:

    Erich Sõerd and his mother

    Oskar Sõerd

    Erich and Leida 1930s

    Leida and her son, Jaak

    Liisa Ots Blumthal, Leida´s mother

    Linda's police portraits

    Helene-Marie

    Ida

    Adolf

…entre nazismo e comunismo, venha o diabo e escolha

A few weeks ago I was talking about an interview published in the newspaper Público with the writer José Milhazes about his book Os Blumthal. Today I write my impressions on the first pages of the author that reflect the first twenty-two years of Estonia independence.