(JEWISH GROUP) Bearing witness: Portraits of Holocaust survivors
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It was a photo shoot like few others: those posing for the camera on this day in Miami aren't fashion models, at least by trade. But they are models in their own way – models of courage, fortitude and grace, all formed in the crucible of the Holocaust.
"It is something that we carry," said 87-year-old Judy Rodan. "It is something that cannot be washed off. No pills, no treatments, no psychology or psychiatry. I think I've done it all."
Rodan was hidden at a Catholic convent in Budapest until the end of the war. "All of my immediate family were eliminated at Auschwitz," she said.
Eighty-eight-year-old Miriam Klein Kassendorf spent the war on the run from her home in what was then Czechoslovakia. "My father was grabbed by his elbows, and he was dragged out of our home on a Shabbat evening," she said.
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Portraits of Holocaust survivors by photographer Gillian Laub, part of her project Live2Tell. / Credit: Gillian Laub