Second generation
The Children Who Came After
A visual essay about growing up in the aftermath of Holocaust survival and slowly recognizing what the next generation can carry.
Videos & Visual Essays
Watch. Listen. Reflect.
Short visual work exploring the same subjects that run through the books and community conversations: history, memory, pressure, silence, human behavior, and what we gradually learn to accept.
The book
Echoes of History
A visual introduction to the question at the center of the book: can we recognize direction while we are still living inside the change?
Break the Pattern
The Impossible Conspiracy
If Jews supposedly controlled governments, finance, media, wars, and world events, how did six million Jews become powerless victims of industrialized extermination?
The videos are another way into the same body of work.
They can begin a conversation. They are not meant to replace one.Second generation
What survival leaves behind.
These visual essays turn toward the children who came after: inherited silence, memory, responsibility, and the effects of a history they did not personally live.
Second generation
Invisible Inheritance
A reflection on the things children can inherit from a history they never personally experienced—and may not understand for years.
Memory & responsibility
Last Generation of Silence
A visual essay about inherited memory and what happens as direct survivor memory passes increasingly to the generations who follow.
Pressure & ordinary life
The New American Serfdom
A visual essay about the feeling that ownership on paper does not always mean freedom in practice—and what happens when more of tomorrow is already owed.
Interviews & conversations
When the work moves into another room.
Television, radio, podcast, livestream, newspaper, and recorded interviews have their own archive so they do not get mixed into Jerry-created visual essays.
From the events
Real rooms. Real conversations.
As presentations and community conversations take place, selected event photographs, notes, and occasional clips will form a quiet visual record of where the conversation has traveled.