The Holocaust serves as the inspiration for the series Erased Memories, as a historical event as well as a piece of family history. When confronted with documentation of the Holocaust, we are often so shocked by its enormity that we get lost in the numbers. But the numbers do not do the horrors justice.  Erased Memories documents the images buried in memories, the stories still shrouded in question and mystery, the faces of the dead and the survivors. The portraits are framed by the weight of statistics and hard facts: tattooed numbers, endless lists of names, the architecture of the death camps. Within this structure, we catch a glimpse of a person, as if half-remembered. They are the sisters that died, the sons who escaped, the child who was never born. Each face of “Erased Memories” could be anyone caught in the maelstrom of history, whose fate is decided by some unknown force.  These anonymous images provide a connection to the past, but the bridge can also be traveled forward.  In our time anonymity can become the rule.  The individual is forgotten in the crush of numbers, or drowned in a sea of faces - where a digitized identity denies the “flesh and blood” story underneath.  The viewer is asked to remember, and recognize that the face in the frame of events may appear anonymous, but not quite erased from memory. Erased Memories is a series of photo-constructions. The inside images are either black and white photographs or cibachrome prints and the frames are unique handmade collages using Xeroxes and materials from yearbooks or historical books on the Holocaust.