This photograph was taken in 1942. A well-off iron-merchant family in Szeged (Hungary) is celebrating a birthday or some other anniversary. Two years later 9 people of those on the photo perished in the Holocaust. Almost no one on the picture is alive today. Yet the chandalier is still here. As are the portrays of the hosts on the wall. And some of the silvery. Also, the highly decorate wooden chair in the front of the photograph is still around.
The Objects of Remembrance project is set out to restore family histories in context by “interviewing” such inanimate objects and capture the memories they convey to survivors, descendents and even historians.
Objects that travel through decades and sometimes centuries in families become containers of emotion, identity and historic reflection. The changing nature of wealth, loss, taste and ambition over time are wondrously revealed by choices of objects around us from generation to generation. Lindenfeld Partners is established to help telling these stories.
