Porter's Landing

Freeport, Maine 04032

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These are the testimonies of 21 remarkable people who survived the Holocaust. Most were children during the dark years of fascism in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. As the “Final Solution” gathered momentum, some were forced into ghettos and then on to the death factories of Auschwitz and other camps. Some fled to the woods where they survived with partisan bands resisting the Germans and others who hunted for Jews. One lived in hiding as a good “Catholic” school boy with a farm family in Belgium. All of them survived through a combination of great fortitude and good luck. They then made their way from the chaos and devastation of Europe to the United States and eventually moved to Maine, where they rebuilt their lives.

I began making photographic portraits of the survivors 30 years ago. At the outset of the pandemic, I set out to collect their first person accounts as they had told them in interviews, books they had written and speeches they had given, letters and poems. The book was published in paperback and hardcopy in 2025 by the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (Augusta). Through the generosity of indvivual and foundation donors, it is now in every library and public school Maine.

The book is available at PRINT, A Bookstore (Portland), Gulf of Maine Books (Brunswick), Union River Book and Toy Co. (Elsworth), Sherman’s bookstores (throughout Maine), and Amazon (https://a.co/d/0c05cDn). I am speaking regularly at schools, libraries, synagogues and elsewhere throughout the state. I always welcome new opportujities to speak. I can be reached at slmb88lf@protonmail.com.