SARASOTA – Renowned photographer Judy Glickman Lauder has photographed some of the most well-known concentration camps across Europe.
She’s now publishing some of her best work in one collection.
“There’s somewhat of a spiritual level to my work,” said Lauder.
Lauder has been a photographer for nearly three decades. Her new book tells the stories of those affected by Nazi-Germany during WWII.
“Its 30 years of photography. I started in ’88, going to concentration camps, the ghettos, railroads the tracks, everything,” Lauder said.
Because of her family heritage Lauder felt compel to share the stories of survivors and to photograph what happens when the world is consumed by hate. “The book deals with the depths, the darkness of mankind but it also deals with hope and moral courage and that we can make a difference,” she said.
In her book, Lauder interviews survivors of the holocaust and some Danish people who helped during the Danish Rescue.
“Everything kinda spoke to me the buildings, the earth, the ash, the stones. It just all, I started recording it and processing it,” she said.
Lauder says she hopes people begin to act up and take a stand to not let history repeat itself. “We still have these issues with us unfortunately today and we can’t afford to be bystanders,” Lauder said.”We all have to really pitch in and pick your cause pick what injustice, pick whatever but we all have to get in there and make a difference.”
Lauder is currently on a book tour across the country and will be talking to people at Temple Emanu-El this Sunday.
