What I learned about my heritage while documenting a Polish Holocaust survivor
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What I learned about my heritage while documenting a Polish Holocaust survivor

LA Times  

Clockwise, Madeleine Hordinski, Justin Keeling, Susan Stefanski and Andrew Stefanski took a picture together after Hordinski finished the project. Just like Andrew Stefanski’s decision to hide his story for many years, my own Polish family didn’t want to share much of their past. I learned about what it might have been like for my own family to fight in the Polish Resistance, although they didn’t survive to share their own story. At one summer doctor’s appointment, he remarked, “I feel like I am half-living.” Susan and Dorothy learned more about their dad too. Although Andrew’s caretaker and Susan were often busy working around the house, they would still make sure to ask, “Did you eat?

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