George's Kaddish for Kovno and the Six Million

About the Book

After interviewing a Holocaust survivor who took clandestine photographs of the Kovno Ghetto at great risk, a graduate student stumbles over a diary chronicling the same time and place during Nazi occupation. She soon discovers that photographer, George Kaddish is one of only two known Jewish photographers who recorded ghetto life, but most importantly she learns that hope and humanity still exist.

About the Author

Catherine has presented her research at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, Columbia University in the City of New York, and Stanford University. Unwittingly, a graduate student stumbles over a photo collection which chronicled life in a Lithuanian ghetto during the Holocaust. While cataloging this time capsule and navigating through its grim, visual narrative of deprivation, she discovers a diary recording the same location and time. She is thrust into a world of brutality through a boy’s diary and photographer’s lens but more importantly, she discovers that hope and humanity still exist.