Archive / Pictorial documents
120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland
B 6: Photo/ postcard size/ landscape/colour/grandparents
I spent the first seven years of my life with my granparents in a village in the region of Kastamonu. I spent the next ten years in Istanbul, then I travelled to Switzerland. My father met me at the airport. I knew him only from the summer holidays. He looked exactly as my grandmother had always described him: a powerful man with strong hands.
Hanife D., born 1964, from Kastamonu, Turkey