Give Me Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

My grandfather fled fascism in his home of eastern Hungary in 1938. At the age of four he sailed across the Atlantic with his family to be greeted by Lady Liberty. I am here today because they were able to get out. Most were not given that opportunity and were subjected to the horrors of The Holocaust. As I took this photo in November 2021, I reflected upon the privilege I was given through the weight of my ancestors leaving their home for a foreign land. I pondered the ways the world has changed since my late grandfather was welcomed by the very same symbol of hope that I was now witnessing. And then I remembered the ways the world hasn’t changed much at all. A boat that was conveniently ...View all