This body of work is a result of exploring my parents' personal history as survivors of Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Even though I have always known that my parents were interned in concentration camps, we never talked about those years in any detail. Fifty years had passed, if I didn't find out now, I might never know their story. The first results of this inquiry were 2 artists' books 71125: Fifty Years of Silence and B-11226: Fifty Years of Silence, where my parents recollect their nightmarish years in the concentration and extermination camps. In the course of working on these books I traveled to some of the concentration camp sites in order to understand what my parents were describing. I photographed the camp sites as they are today in order to use these images in the books. I was so haunted by what I saw and experienced that I was compelled to create these pieces as my way of paying homage to the overwhelming power of the human spirit.