Voice of Memory
“These images do not seek beauty, but truth.
They are fragments of suffering and resistance, reminders against forgetting.”
“I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony.
The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”
James Nachtwey
This section is not about beauty, but about truth.
From Auschwitz to the Riga Ghetto, from Schindler’s Factory in Krakow to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, memory reminds us of when Jews were victims of unimaginable horror.
From Ukraine under bombs from the repression of Russia’s opponents to the cries of Gaza — history shows us that oppression wears many faces.
And in Gaza, Israel — once a victim — has become an aggressor, turning civilians into prey of war.
These photographs show places of the Memory and Demonstrators who raise their voices against violence, injustice, and silence.
They also bear witness to the Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 — and to the families who demand their return.
They are fragments of resistance, courage, and despair.
Photography cannot heal wounds, but it can refuse indifference.
It can expose contradictions, injustices, and crimes committed in the name of power.
Each picture is a testimony against forgetting, against silence, against the comfort of looking away.
To see is to remember.
To remember is to resist.
Auschwitz – Memory and Shadows
Here, silence is heavier than words.
The barracks, the faces, the walls — they still breathe the suffering of millions.
Every corridor is a wound, every portrait a life stolen.
The gas chambers and crematoria stand as unerasable evidence of human cruelty.
To walk through Auschwitz is not to visit history, but to confront humanity’s darkest abyss.
These images are not only remembrance — they are a call never to forget, never to repeat.
The infamous lie at the entrance: “Work sets you free.” For most, it was only the gateway to death.
Eyes that never rest, gazes frozen before annihilation. Each portrait is a name, a story, a human being.
Shadows of the past: narrow wooden bunks where countless lives were reduced to numbers, hunger, and despair.
1.3 million deported. 1.1 million murdered. Behind each number, a face, a name, a stolen life.”
Faces and bodies of victims confront the silence of today’s visitors — a dialogue between memory and conscience.
Here, prisoners were lined up and executed. The wall still carries the weight of those final moments.
Silent walls and barbed wire still speak of suffering — a stark reminder of the price of hatred.
Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers: where humanity fell into darkness. May remembrance keep the light alive.
Children, teenagers, mothers — lives stopped too soon. Their innocent faces are the sharpest wound.
Cold machines of extermination. The place where bodies disappeared, but where memory resists forever.
On these tracks millions were taken to their fate — the blue sky above whispers a hope for a different future.
Places of Memory
From the Riga Ghetto to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin to Schindler’s Factory in Krakow, these places carry the weight of history.
They are silent witnesses to lives erased, yet still present in stone, iron, and silence.
The names inscribed on walls, the endless lists of the murdered, remind us that memory must not fade.
In Budapest’s Great Synagogue, in Prague’s Pinkas Synagogue, echoes of lost voices continue to resonate.
Each site is not only remembrance of the past, but also a warning for the future.
Lanterns of memory, keeping alive the stories of Riga’s Jewish community.
Faces of the Riga Ghetto, preserved against the endless list of names of the murdered.
Riga Ghetto. A deportation list, each line a life erased by the Holocaust.
Riga Ghetto. Fragments of identity documents, suspended to testify to lives stolen too soon.
Walking among the concrete stelae of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, where absence becomes presence.
A city in motion around the Holocaust Memorial, reminding us that remembrance must coexist with everyday life.
Berlin. Archival documents, silent witnesses to lives broken and erased by Nazi persecution.
Berlin. Identity cards marked with the Star of David — names and faces stripped of dignity, yet preserved in memory.
Krakow - Schindler's Factory. A glimpse into the atrocity — silent witnesses of human cruelty.
Krakow. The lives saved by Schindler’s List.
Krakow - Schindler's Facotry. Faces of survivors — fragile but powerful symbols of resilience and hope.
Krakow. A chilling reminder of the racial laws — daily life marked by hatred and exclusion of Jews.
Budapest Synagogue: Names etched in metal, a fragile echo of a silenced community.
Budapest Synagogue. Stones of remembrance, each one a silent witness to lives lost.
Prague Pinkas Synagogue – Close-up of Thousands of names, each a memory, resisting erasure through remembrance.
Prague Pinkas Synagogue – Wall of Names Each engraved name a silent cry, a life stolen by Nazi brutality.
Prague Pinkas Synagogue - Innocent visions on fragile paper, left behind by children murdered in the Holocaust.
Exhibit of Drawings – Pinkas Synagogue Prague Colors of hope and fear drawn by young hands, voices silenced too soon.
Prague – Memorial wall inside the Pinkas Synagogue, bearing the names of extermination camps where countless lives were destroyed.
Across Europe, voices rise against Russia’s war in Ukraine and against repression in Moscow.
Here, the streets are free to speak — but in Russia, dissent means prison, exile, or death.
These demonstrations carry both solidarity and defiance.
They remind us that truth survives only when spoken aloud.
And that silence, in the face of tyranny, is never neutral.
Paris. Protesters demand action, not silence: a cry against Russian terror, echoing far beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Krakow. Voices demanding freedom for prisoners of war, hope among broken chains.
In the streets of Paris, voices unite to stand with Ukraine — a call for freedom and dignity against Russian aggression.
Paris. Save the Ukrainian children’ — the faces of innocence remind us what is truly at stake in this war.
Riga. Voices of innocence – Simple drawings, desperate words: a cry against war from hearts that should only know peace.
Riga. Portrait of courage – Honoring those who fight and fall, their faces remind us that freedom always has a price.
Berlin - in front of the Russian Embassy, colors of Ukraine rise against silence, a fragile altar of memory and protest.
Krakow. An embrace wrapped in Ukraine’s colors, symbol of love and resistance.
Krakow. Counting the days of war, marked by images of destruction and pain.
Vilnius. At the KGB’s haunted walls, survivors of fear read words with Ukraine flag, where memory warns: oppression returns when silence replaces resistance.
In Prague, the call to free Alexei Navalny echoes on the walls — a demand for justice and an end to repression.
Wrocław. From Stalinist shadows to Navalny’s sacrifice, memory whispers: oppression returns unless courage keeps the light alive.
Vilnius, a city mourning Navalny — flowers and candles speak where words fall short.
Vilnius. A message carved in grief and rage: Navalny was killed, but his fight lives on.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas brutally attacked Israel, killing civilians and taking hostages.
Those hostages remain trapped — victims of ruthless power games, their lives hanging in uncertainty.
In Gaza, Israel has become the executioner, turning neighborhoods into mass graves.
Children and innocent people pay the highest price for the hatred of a few.
Every life lost, Israeli or Palestinian, is a wound to humanity.
Justice means freeing the hostages, ending the massacre, and breaking the cycle of vengeance.
Vilnius. Their eyes remind us: silence is not an option.
Vilnius remembers the hostages: voices silenced by terror, but never forgotten.
Voices of Wrocław rise for Gaza – demanding freedom for Palestine and an end to the bloodshed.
Kidnapped: faces of stolen lives, cries for justice on the streets of Krakow.
In Wrocław, protesters march against Israel’s war in Gaza, calling for justice and an end to innocent lives lost.