WAR STORY

WAR STORY
(1995–96)

Gelatin silver prints. 14.5 x 18 inches. Edition of 7.

In 1944-45 my father, Meyer Levin, then an American war correspondent, embarked on a journey through war-torn Europe seeking out the remnants of Jewish communities. Sharing a Jeep with him was French photographer Eric Schwab. Schwab was photographing the war. He was also on a personal mission, searching for his mother who had been deported in 1943.

In his autobiography, In Search, my father describes that journey from Paris to Prague, through the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the first stirrings of the Cold War.

In 1995 I retraced my father's journey. I photographed the former battle fields, the concentration camps and the Europe of today. I assembled those photographs together with my father's writings and with a selection of Eric Schwab's photographs from 1945, presenting a narrative of image and text that contrasts my journey to my father's experiences of fifty years before.