Das Projekt wird unterst\u00fctzt vom FONARES Fondation Nationale de la R\u00e9sistance.<\/p>\n
das war die alte Version:<\/p>\n
For a couple of months now I have been busy with something that has been occupying my thoughts for years now, sometimes more, sometimes less.<\/p>\n
Last year I worked on a project about my mother called \u201cLayers of time\u201d, a title I had used\u00a0before once for a little\u00a0photo book, and certainly for more then one picture I took in the last 10 years \u2026 I decided to keep this title for this site \/ blog to document a new work in process, a project about my father.
\nOr rather about one aspect of my fathers life that profoundly marked his personality and that has repercussions until this day, a story he shares with many others and that in the light of current events\u00a0is as relevant as ever.<\/p>\n
When he was just 5 years old, in 1942, he, his brother and his parents were deported by the Nazis form their native city of Ettelbruck in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to a part of Germany called Niederschlesien, a region that become a part of Poland after the second world war. They were deported because the Nazis wanted them to become Germans, and because they were obviously and openly not willing to do so \u2026 they had to leave everything behind and were transported by freight trains to Schlesien, to live and work there under strict supervision \u2026 in squalid, cramped and improvised \u201ccamps\u201d installed in old, often formerly abandoned buildings \u2026<\/p>\n
I will write more about this deportation program in a separate post and link to relevant websites.
\nWhat interests me beside the entire historical part is what this forced migration and living in such circumstances did to my father, his family and how this traumatic experience can\u00a0still influence his behavior up to this day \u2026 and maybe even the behavior and personality of his children \u2026 The themes of identity, national and personal and the role religion plays in this.<\/p>\n
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