A unique documentation by photographer Mikael Jansson of 97 survivors of the Holocaust.
Winner of Swedish Photo Book Prize and Svensk Bokkonst 2018
Witnesses is the catalogue to the exhibition ”Witnesses”
World renowned photographer Mikael Jansson has travelled across Sweden to listen to and document the last survivors of the holocaust. In bare yet powerful portraits the last generation come forward. As humans we are demanded to listen, and to never forget.
Witnesses is a poignant and intimate film about what happened, and must never happen again. Mikael Jansson met, photographed and filmed 97 survivors of the holocaust, before the exhibition Witnesses. This beautifully composed documentary brings forward unimaginable and important accounts, as they tell us what happened to them and their families in the Germans’ death camps.
Some of these memories have never been told, or even shared with their own children. Most of them arrived in Sweden in their youth, right after the liberation. Today they are between 90 and 100 years old. Soon they will not be able to talk about what happened, to share with their own words what they saw and experienced. What sits before us are the last witnesses.
Size: 210 x 300 mm
Pages: 144
Format: 9 x 16 page–broadsheets in archival box
Editor: Lars Forsberg
Text: Hedi Fried, Timothy Snyder, Göran Rosenberg, Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss among others
Book Design: Greger Ulf Nilson
ISBN: 9789100179625
2018
A unique documentation by photographer Mikael Jansson of 97 survivors of the Holocaust.
Winner of Swedish Photo Book Prize and Svensk Bokkonst 2018
Witnesses is the catalogue to the exhibition ”Witnesses”
World renowned photographer Mikael Jansson has travelled across Sweden to listen to and document the last survivors of the holocaust. In bare yet powerful portraits the last generation come forward. As humans we are demanded to listen, and to never forget.
Witnesses is a poignant and intimate film about what happened, and must never happen again. Mikael Jansson met, photographed and filmed 97 survivors of the holocaust, before the exhibition Witnesses. This beautifully composed documentary brings forward unimaginable and important accounts, as they tell us what happened to them and their families in the Germans’ death camps.
Some of these memories have never been told, or even shared with their own children. Most of them arrived in Sweden in their youth, right after the liberation. Today they are between 90 and 100 years old. Soon they will not be able to talk about what happened, to share with their own words what they saw and experienced. What sits before us are the last witnesses.
Size: 210 x 300 mm
Pages: 144
Format: 9 x 16 page–broadsheets in archival box
Editor: Lars Forsberg
Text: Hedi Fried, Timothy Snyder, Göran Rosenberg, Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss among others
Book Design: Greger Ulf Nilson
ISBN: 9789100179625
2018
