Missing Stories – Stories of Hungarian Jews from New York

Shocking, poignant, makes you wonder – many adjectives can be used to describe the stories documented by Ildi Hermann fne art photographer; however, the most proper characteristic of all would be that they are T R U E . They are true both in historical and personal sense. This unique, ‘remembering’ photo album contains memories, the past and present of fourteen Holocaust survivors emigrating from Hungary to New York. Their past is revived nakedly and purely through their tears or wry humour to their disappointment and life affrmation, and private history and world history intertwine through their words: for example by telling us how a neighbour, a soldier, an old servant, a friend or a concierge behaved in certain situations. Fourteen fates: fourteen missing stories about everyday people, fourteen stories about survival.