The Children of Bergen-Belsen

by Maria Klenner

Kehrer Verlag

Cloth hardcover

208 pages, 18 x 24 cm

Kehrer Design (Lisa Drechsel)

English / German

Text by Charlotte Wiedemann, the portrayed persons, and Maria Klenner

A photographic study of history and migration, identity and belonging, trauma and healing. A documentary project about the first generation of Jewish children who were born in the displaced persons camp Bergen-Belsen in Germany after 1945. The Children of Bergen-Belsen was published by Kehrer Verlag in November 2023 and awarded the German Photobook Prize 24/25. Discover a critique on Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German).

Maria Klenner – The Children of Bergen-Belsen from Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg on Vimeo.