I Thought It Would Feel Like Home…
…explores my experience growing up as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and coming to understand its impact on my life. It focuses on a pilgrimage I made with a small group of cousins to my father’s pre-Holocaust homeland of Lithuania.
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The Profound Loss of a Culture and Its People
The photo essay "I Thought It Would Feel Like Home" is Part II of " The Legacy: A Daughter’s Experience of the Holocaust", a body of work in two parts that also includes “82598”. It explores my experience growing up as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and coming to understand its impact on my life. It focuses on a pilgrimage I made with a small group of cousins, several of us meeting for the first time, to my father's pre-Holocaust homeland of Lithuania.
In documenting and writing about this journey I came face-to-face with the profound loss of a culture and its people, their erasure at the hands of others, my ongoing sense of yearning (to this day what I yearn for is often not clear), and the "memories of memory" that are the only remnants I have to hold onto. This is my legacy.
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