'Survivor: My Father's Ghosts'
Photo Exhibition at LAMOTH
Hannah Kozak, photographer, film-maker and writer, retraces her father’s footsteps of his stays in eight Nazi forced labor camps in Germany from 1943 until liberation on May 8, 1945. Shot entirely on film on a 1961 Rolleiflex 2.8F and hand-printed silver gelatin prints.
From 2013 to 2017, on multiple sojourns, Hannah traveled to Poland to see and photograph Auschwitz-Birkenau, Markstadt, Klettendorf, Dernau, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, Chelmno, Gross Rosen, Hirschberg, Erdmansdorf and Bad Warmbrunn. She also traveled to the Czech Republic to see Terezin and to Germany to see Sachsenhausen, Stutthof, Dachau, and Buchenwald as well as to Berlin, Munich, Krakow, Warsaw and Wroclaw to fully flesh out her project and her understanding of the Holocaust.
Her exhibition is presented at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
between May 20 - August 20, 2018.
Hannah Kozak
All photos used in this article by permission by Hannah Kozak. Copyright © Hannah Kozak