An elderly couple sitting on a old patterned sofa in a room with floral wallpaper. The woman is wearing a blue sweater with white snowflakes and the man is wearing a striped polo shirt. Both are wearing glasses.

Abandoned Past

Photography for Verlaten Verleden (Abandoned Past), a book and television documentary sharing the life stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors and Dutch Indo survivors of Japanese internment camps, who emigrated from the Netherlands to America after WWII. The project gave voice to two groups of war survivors — very different, yet united by resilience and the drive to build a new future in the United States.