Description
He was born on July 26, 1933 in Stanislawow, Poland. When the war began Alexander was only 6 years old; he recounts that his childhood up to that point had been very happy. On July 26, 1941, his 8th birthday, the Nazis invaded his town. They survived in the Stanislawow Ghetto for a year, "people were dying of hunger and disease. There was a typhoid epidemic and it was very cold.
Together with his mother, Pepa, they decided to escape to save their lives. Thus began a terrible journey in search of a hiding place. Of a large family, only his mother, his mother's sister and his father's brother survived. He arrived in Uruguay on July 3, 1948 and in 1959 he graduated as a civil engineer and formed a family with children and grandchildren.
Testimony:
"I am not religious, I do not believe in miracles; but I consider that all of us who survived it was, first, thanks to our good luck, because good luck exists. Then to physical strength, because if I could resist a freezing cold of -30°C, it is because I obviously had the strength. Finally, thanks to the will to survive, because there were people who let themselves be, did not fight and did not succeed. I did everything I did, I walked all night long, I walked from town to town, because I had the will to survive, consciously or unconsciously, but I had it."
Montevideo - Uruguay 2020
aaronsosa.eth.co
www.aaronsosaphotography.com
Digital Photography
Size: 6000 x 4000px 300 DPI
About this project:
In the history of mankind there can be found no other crime so heinous, nor so coldly calculated, as the one that as that which annihilated millions of human beings in the Nazi concentration camps.
This project has allowed me to enter for a brief moment into the lives of an important group of these exiles and survivors, who arrived in Latin American lands many years ago to start a new life; and who have given me the honor of knowing a little about them and their experiences, as well as to photograph them and immortalize them through photography.
So far in minting this collection I have been able to portray 58 survivors:
20 from Venezuela
25 from Uruguay
13 from Argentina
The first part of the survivors that arrived in Venezuela were minted as 1/1 NFTs on the ETH blockchain.
I have decided to make the survivors that arrived in Uruguay available in editions of 50 on the Tezos blockchain and the survivors from Argentina will be minted later.
My intention with the sale of the NFTs is to self-finance the project to give it continuity. Soon I must travel to Chile where there are 13 survivors waiting to be portrayed and then continue moving around Latin America to continue with the project. Another of the main objectives is to finance the printing of a book that gathers all the portraits, biographies and testimonies of each survivor.
License: NFT holders are free to use it in advertising, private exhibition, in groups, virtual galleries, magazines or any other digital or physical media by the NFT holder, as long as the original artist is credited and be communicated by e-mail aaronsosaphotographer@gmail.com. No merchandising, commercial distribution or derivatives are allowed. Copyright remains with the creator.