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 …
Andrzej Stefanski looks out of the window in his living room. “We knew he lived through the war,” Susan said, “but we just knew very little about it.” That’s a common experience for the children of survivors, many of whom tried to build lives outside their memories of that terrible time, researchers say. “It just sits in you.” :: Andrzej’s …
