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  Saturday  June 6  2009    12: 47 PM

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In My Mother's Footsteps

"I am proud to present to you an introspective project I did as a Thomas J. Watson fellow, called “In My Mother’s Footsteps.” I used a large format camera and color film to document what I saw as I retraced my mother’s early life during World War II and the Holocaust. This included her escape from Berlin, Germany to Groningen in Holland, and then her eventual Nazi capture. In all, I traveled through four countries, visited five different concentration camps, and followed the path of the “Death March” of winter 1944."

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