The National Socialists murdered millions of people in concentration and extermination camps. Although hundreds of thousands of survivors were liberated at the end of the war, their ordeal was not over. Countless people had lost part of or all of their families and were severely traumatized. Many remained silent about their fate for the rest of their lives or only spoke about their experiences later in life.

How were they able to go on with their lives? Regensburg photographer Stefan Hanke devoted himself to this question and portrayed numerous survivors with different biographies of persecution. The oldest person was 105 years old at the time the photos were taken, the youngest 70. Hanke shows the survivors in their living environment or at the sites of their persecution and imprisonment.