Ghosts: French Holocaust Children

During World War II, over 11,000 Jewish children were deported from France to Nazi death camps. These children were among more than 75,000 French Jews deported under the Nazi plan for the “Final Solution to the Jewish question.” Of those French Jews transported, only 2,564 survived the Shoah. At most 300 of these Jewish children survived. Ghosts: French Holocaust Children is an ethereal commemoration to these children’s abbreviated lives. This project is based on documents and photographs collected by author, lawyer, and Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld that have been photographically re-perceived as a symbolic parable. Utilizing a post-documentary approach, Ghosts expressionistically transforms archival material to imagine the unimaginable. By uniting outer and inner realities to construct a historic media narrative, Ghosts explores the extreme boundaries of human behavior regarding anti-Semitism, identity, memory, and racism, conveying a haunting sense of lost human possibilities.