The War That Never Ends

The story of one family across generations. War is a constant backdrop of life.

Sepia toned family group photo outdoors

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Family

Four Women. Four Generations. One Photograph

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Alexander Gass Ivanovich

The story of my great-grandfather β€” German by origin, whose life was cut short by Stalinist repression. One photograph as an attempt to preserve the presence of a man they tried to erase.

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Yevheniia Gass

The story of Yevheniia Gass, a child of the Great Terror and the daughter of a man executed in 1938. NKVD repression, fear, a forced change of identity, and a long journey toward reclaiming her true n

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Dmytro Berlinskyi

The first close encounter with the war in Ukraine. A road, a night, shelling, and a brief meeting that stayed in memory forever.

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Meggen Gass

The Dark Days of My Childhood. Tbilisi, Georgia, 1989–1992