For Hanna: future stories from the past...

Abstract

"After my father's death, he left me a box full of photos and documents. That's how I discovered the hidden family history and I understood the task that had been assigned to me. As I learned about my family's war history, I saw similarities with Kosovo, where loved ones, families, Serbs and Albanians in wartime came to be diametrically opposed. And still are. For five years, we took research trips to Kosovo and I photographed the victims, bereaved families and loved ones. I compiled the story of these individual fates in a book titled: For Hanna, Future Stories from the Past... A touching document of war, dislocation, reconciliation and hope."--Willem Poelstra