L’dor V’dor: From Generation to Generation

The last of the Holocaust survivors are dying. It’s on this generation to remember their stories. Stories filled with hardship and hope, loss and remembrance. Stories hidden in documents, photographs, and objects scattered like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Stories rarely told, that bring a tear to your eye when the words finally spill out. My family is one of these stories. Both sides of my family are Jewish and emigrated from Eastern Europe during the Holocaust. They leave behind memories of their lives affected by the Holocaust in photos, diaries, memoirs, official documentation, letters, and oral tales. By piecing together materials from my family’s personal archives and my own, this project explores stories left behind and form the memory of our history, a narrative shared by the hundreds of thousands of families who survived the terror of persecution during the Holocaust. This is a telling of our story, a documentation of our history. This is our memory.