Lilla Szász

Comrades

Texts by Lilla Szász (English)

Design by Lilla Szász

2011, Hardcover, Dust jacket

30x30 cm, 92 pages

36 colour plates



Lilla Szász, 1977

Lives and works in Budapest



In Comrades Lilla Szász’s initial motivation was to document the lives of the Russian Jewish Veterans living in Brighton Beach, New York.



As members of the Russian army, these people fiercely fought German occupation from 1941 to 1945. In the 1990s because of the post-war anti-Semitism in their own country, they immigrated to the US and settled in New York City area.



Their common experiences in the war, in its aftermath, and as immigrants to the United States bind them deeply to one another. As The New York Times explained, "As Jews who shared both the deprivations of a brutal war against Hitler's forces and postwar anti-Semitism under a Soviet system they had risked their lives to preserve, their allegiance is not to the former Soviet Union, nor to the Red Army, nor even to Mother Russia, but to one another."