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The Women Who Survived The Holocaust
(Refinery29-UK) Frank Shirley - Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust, with photos of 102 survivors by British photographer Harry Borden, was published on Jan. 27 to coincide with International Holocaust Memorial Day 2017. Borden details the childhood and wartime experiences of each survivor, as well as how their lives have unfolded since the end of Nazism. Each portrait, taken in the subject's home, is published alongside a handwritten note, published unedited. "Those of us who survived were not more worthy than those who perished. Nor were we braver, richer, smarter or more resourceful. We were not. We were just luckier," writes Eve Kugler. In a foreword, Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson writes: "There are fewer and fewer survivors left to speak about what only they can know. It is all the more important, then, that they bear witness to a truth so many do not want to hear."