By Her Hand

By Her Hand bears witness and pays homage to Ellen’s immigrant family legacy. Her mother was a holocaust survivor who, on liberation from one of the most barbarous of the Nazi extermination centers, forged a new and remarkably normal life from the meager remnants of her familial past.

Listen to Ellen describing the story of By Her Hand

This work was shown as part of the exhibit Our Mothers Ourselves: Legacies that Shape Us
at the Harvey Milk Photo Center in SF from April - June 2023
Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed.  
It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.      
 - Leonard Cohen

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