“The Irreversible” is a series and book by Maciek Nabrdalik that documents Holocaust survivors. David Rosenberg explains:

In 2009, concerned that he was living with the last generation of Holocaust survivors, photographer Maciek Nabrdalik began meeting, interviewing and taking portraits of survivors for a series titled “The Irreversible”.

Nabrdalik felt a need to act quickly, noting that some survivors passed away after he made contact with them including the last known gay survivor Gad Beck. He said other survivors felt that while they had moved on with their lives and their recollections were not as vivid as they once were, they could never completely escape the nightmares of the past. That sentiment became the title of the project because “…it is difficult to escape something that lies so deep and returns uninvited in dreams, fears and associations. This, they say, is irreversible.”

(Photo: Zofia Posmysz, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau and KL Ravensbruck survivor, by Maciek Nabrdalik.  The Irreversible was published this month.)