Closing on Unrest A counter monument for five unmarked mass graves in the forests of eastern Poland. Phytograms gleaned and generated from flora on site – exposed and processed in situ. Research completed in partnership with the Zapomniane Foundation.
Shtetlers Shtetlers tells the secret story of small Jewish towns in the former Soviet Union. These towns, or shtetls as they were called, were once home to the largest Jewish population in the world. Only a few survived the Holocaust, and those that did were all located in the territory of the modern Ukraine and Moldova....
The Forgiveness of Judith Malina The Forgiveness of Judith Malina considers the ethics of forgiveness in the context of the Holocaust.The film features never-before-seen footage of late theater director Judith Malina with an original score by James Sclavunos of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. As director of The Living Theatre, Judith Malina (1926–2015) was a giant of the American...
Axel Stocks: A Blood Artist A Blood Artist is a short documentary about Axel Stocks (1946-2016), who was born to a Jewish woman in a displaced persons camp immediately after the Second World War. Her husband, a Jew, and her whole family, had already been exterminated. She was forced to have sex with the Nazis to survive. After the war,...
A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL: Three Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL is an eye-opening portrait of three Bulgarian Jews – Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker on the Lower East side of Manhattan in New York – as they struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II into the more common narrative...
Commandment 613 Rabbi Kevin Hale joyfully practices the sacred craft of a Torah scribe, bringing new life to scrolls saved during the Shoah. As his work takes him to communities now entrusted with the scrolls, he reflects on his own path to faith and practice.
Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story (46 min) “Herinneren: Het verhaal van Maurits Kiek…Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story” presents one man’s courage to return to Nazi-occupied Europe and serve as a covert MI-9 agent. His unwavering determination to stand up, in the face of overwhelming odds, and fight the perpetrators of evil was acknowledged in Den Haag, The Hague, in 2015. He is...
Susette’s Story Like so many refugee families from Nazi Germany, Rod Martel’s experience was typical, if that is the word you can use for the horror visited upon a generation of German Jews. Most of his relatives were murdered, but his parents escaped to start a normal life in the United States. His fraternal grandparents fled to...
Violin The world of the film forms around a unique musical instrument and its incredible journey, that involved witnessing all the horrors of the war. It opens in a violin shop, where at the beginning of the 20 century an instrument was created as a present for a Jewish boy. It ends many years later by...