I never expected I would care this much and be so excited to showcase these pictures. When I started this project, I didn’t know anything about David Labkovski (or the Holocaust) and now we are here to tell you his life story.

Before beginning my time doing this project, I did not really identify with the Holocaust or its effects on Jewish life as a Jew. Rather I saw it as an unhappy topic that, like the atrocities of the Japanese occupation of Korea and other such horrific happenings in history, it just was. In some cases I outright avoided learning about it when I could. After participating in the program (David Labkovski Project), my outlook was transformed. I have had to confront my own Jewish identity and apply myself to learning about the Holocaust. Through David and Rivka’s lives and struggles, I learned how to see the Holocaust as less of another flat atrocity of history and more of a dynamic event that needs to be shared to the general public in order to make them understand its importance.