Katrina’s Jewish Voices

This photograph was taken by Ilana Hurwitz, an attorney who went to New Orleans in the summer of 2006 to volunteer at the Common Ground Collective's Legal Clinic. LC, who is from the lower 9th Ward, was Ilana's cab driver in New Orleans. This photo shows LC in his in-laws' mold ridden home.

This photograph was taken by Ilana Hurwitz, an attorney who went to New Orleans in the summer of 2006 to volunteer at the Common Ground Collective's Legal Clinic. LC, who is from the lower 9th Ward, was Ilana's cab driver in New Orleans.

This photograph shows Ilana Hurwitz in the Lower 9th Ward. Ilana is an attorney who went to New Orleans in the summer of 2006 to volunteer at the Common Ground Collective's Legal Clinic.

This photograph of the devastation in the Lower 9th Ward was taken by Ilana Hurwitz, an attorney who went to New Orleans in the summer of 2006 to volunteer at the Common Ground Collective's Legal Clinic.

These are emails from Ilana Hurwitz to family members from June 30 to July 8, 2006. Ilana, who is a South African native, is an attorney who went to New Orleans to volunteer at the Common Ground Collective's Legal Clinic.