ERNA HELENA ANIA

Tomasz Laczny
ERNA HELENA ANIA
Photographs: Tomasz Laczny
Publisher: BLOW UP PRESS
102 pages
Pictures: 43
Year: 2021
ISBN: 978-83-952840-7-6
Comments: Softcover, 22,5 x 15,5 cm. Text in English. Cover paper: soft, Favini Refit Wool Black (includes 15% wool fibres), inside: Munken Pure Rough, Fedrigoni Nettuno Nero. Design by Aneta Kowalczyk. Multiple inserts and fold-out pages allow the reader to retrace and uncover this family's history, just as Laczny did.
Winner of the 2020 BUP Book Award, the Polish Graphic Design Awards 2021, a bronze winner for fine art book at the International Photography Awards 2021, and a silver winner for fine art book at the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021!
The true story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the end of the World War II and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.
The end of the WWII. Polish-German borderland. A young German woman falls in love with a Polish guy. Back then, this kind of relationship between enemies was prohibited: both of them could be killed, if that would be discovered. Moreover, she gets pregnant and is hiding her pregnancy. After the war, she is imprisoned in the camp for Germans. She gives birth to the author’s mum but, because of her poor conditions, is not able to raise her and has to give her away.
The European borders were changed after the WWII by the decision of a few key political figures and almost all Germans were expelled (the largest forced migration in history). The woman, hoping to be reunited with her daughter, decided to stay but had to gain Polish nationality. For her, as ex-German, life in Poland was extremely difficult. She lived in the shadow of guilt and memories of what had happened in Poland during the WWII. All her family had been expelled. And it took many years for her to be with her daughter together again.
Tomasz Laczny: “The story of my grandmother is a story about losing identity, family, and country in the face of traumatic historic events. It represents the situation of many people and nations finding themselves struggling with finding their own identity after the war in the shadow of Nazism.Ironically, the story of my grandmother unfolds some similarities with my own. Living abroad for many years I experienced disconnection and isolation and struggled with finding my new identity. Also, there is the story of the absence of my daughter who I haven't seen for almost 3 years now.”














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