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1.9.1944 Courtesy of the artist
INHERITANCE: Stories of Memory and Discovery
August 29, 2014 -December 13, 2014
As memories of the Holocaust fade, I sought out relatives, friends, and colleagues whose lives were profoundly shaped by World War II and its tragic consequences. Between 2007 and 2012, I interviewed these individuals about their wartime experiences and recorded our conversations. I composed still life montages from “the things they carried” and passed down to their children and grandchildren. These keepsakes include a 1939 family snapshot carried into battle by a Polish physician and a letter from a survivor to her children recalling the infamous day in the Łódź Ghetto when the Nazis demanded “Mothers, Give Your Children.” The son of a British sergeant and a French resistance fighter inherited his parents’ wartime garments, including a profile of his heroic father sketched by a prisoner at Natzweiler-‐Struthof on 1.9.1944.
My artist’s palette is made up of tattered cloth, sepia photographs, charcoal sketches, smudged documents, and wartime medals—visual mementos that encapsulate these singular journeys before, during, and after the Holocaust. The images and text explore memory, commemorate loss, and radiate history.
