mother – KANDAKA

10. March 201824. May 2021

It’s Never You Until It’s You

Hannah interviewed and photographed her beautiful mother Petra who survived breast cancer and agreed to share her story with Kandaka. Hopefully, this can be of help to women who fight or help others fight illness. How did you find out about your breast cancer? In 2007, my gynecologist offered me to undertake an annual ultrasound…

24. September 201724. May 2021

Motherhood as Sisterhood

My grandma was a German catholic girl who had to flee what is now Czech after Germany lost WWII. Her family moved to the Munich area and after finishing school, she started working at Föhrenwald, the biggest camp for displaced persons. There, she met my grandfather, a Jewish man who had escaped the Ghetto in…