First published 2018
Photographer Judy Glickman Lauder presents thirty years of work capturing two contrasting Holocaust stories. Her dark photographs document the death camps of Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, preserving evidence of mass murder and suffering. She then turns to Denmark's remarkable exception. In 1943, Danish citizens and leaders defied Nazi occupation to hide their Jewish neighbors. Over several intense weeks, they smuggled seven thousand Jews and nearly seven hundred non-Jewish spouses across the Øresund strait to Sweden in small boats. Denmark became the only Western European nation to rescue its entire Jewish population. Glickman Lauder photographs the Danish Jewish survivors and their rescuers, capturing faces marked by both trauma and courage. Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum and Judith S. Goldstein provide historical context, while survivors share their memories. Elie Wiesel contributed a previously unpublished response to these images. The book juxtaposes the darkness of genocide with the light of human decency, showing how ordinary people chose to resist hatred and protect their neighbors.
Genres: biography, history, art, 20th-century, 21st-century, photography
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, resistance
Setting: Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden
Period: 1943, World War II
Hardcover · Aperture
Content warnings: death