Invited to Life
Finding Hope after the Holocaust
Published on 27. January 2023
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7643-6445-7 (ISBN)
Description
A moving and joyful celebration of survival, resilience and joy, expressed through 90 black-and-white portraits of Holocaust survivors and personal stories of their postwar lives.
The survivors featured here in Invited to Life, many photographed with their family members, share lessons they have learned and pass on the wisdom that comes from building a life of one's choosing out of the wreckage of despair.
Author Van Sise, an award-winning 20-year veteran photojournalist, spent four years working with Holocaust museums and outreach organizations to compile these captivating images and textual vignettes. The result is an inspirational keepsake that readers will treasure.
Completing the volume are essays by Dr. Mayim Bialik, Neil Gaiman, and Sabrina Orah Mark.
The survivors featured here in Invited to Life, many photographed with their family members, share lessons they have learned and pass on the wisdom that comes from building a life of one's choosing out of the wreckage of despair.
Author Van Sise, an award-winning 20-year veteran photojournalist, spent four years working with Holocaust museums and outreach organizations to compile these captivating images and textual vignettes. The result is an inspirational keepsake that readers will treasure.
Completing the volume are essays by Dr. Mayim Bialik, Neil Gaiman, and Sabrina Orah Mark.
Reviews / Votes
"[Along with] handsome and sensitive portraits...Van Sise identifies lessons for our unsettled time. Invited to Life is a compelling and memorable portrait that testifies to the strength and endurance of the human spirit." - Maron L. Waxman, Jewish Book Council "Hefty, beautifully produced... [Van Sise] has done his job beautifully. He has been true to his intention: to show existence ongoing, life being lived." -Michael R. Caplan, White Rose Magazine "A truly powerful collection of images, stories, allegories and lives...Van Sise is writing with light, as if drawn by Picasso himself.It is extremely difficult to make this look simple. The light transforms from a simple instrument and becomes representative of amusement and laughter, it is hope in the darkness, it is sunlight from an invisible window that warms and comforts. This is the stuff that moves mountains, the small action that ripples across millennia." -Cary Benbow, F-Stop Magazine "Thoughtful, kind and insightful, [Invited to Life] is, at different points, hilarious, breathtaking, and gut-wrenching. It's always worth your attention." - Sara Beth Berman, Hey Alma "Poignant and exquisite." - Karen Lehrman Bloch, Jewish Journal
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
90 b/w images
Dimensions
Height: 307 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1656 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-6445-7 (9780764364457)
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Persons
Van Sise is a 20-year veteran photojournalist whose work has been featured in major solo exhibitions at the Center for Creative Photography and the Center for Jewish History, as well as in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery. He is an Independent Book Publishers Awards gold medalist and a Prix de la Photographie Paris award winner. He lives in New York City. bavansise.com