USA: FILM OF NAZI HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PREMIERES IN THE USA

Record ID: 278272

  • Title: USA: FILM OF NAZI HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PREMIERES IN THE USA
  • Date: 26th April 2000
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (APRIL 18, 2000) (REUTERS) ***NOTE: SOUNDBITE IS MUTE*** SV (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSHUA GREEN SAYING, "The feeling that we were coming close to a truly seminal human experience that we were learning about this critical moment in human history from people that had been there and you don't get there and you don't get to learn history that
  • Embargoed: 11th May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK / NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT UNITED STATES AND UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict,Arts
  • Reuters ID: LVAEEXSVUT0X2XVWU4WIMALDD1G2
  • Story Text: A documentary made with some of the earliest recorded interviews with survivors of the Nazi holocaust premieres next week in the United States coinciding with Holocaust Remembrance Day.
    Holocaust Remembrance Day is a day set aside for remembering the victims of the Holocaust.The day's principal message is that another Holocaust must never be allowed to happen.
    In the United States a rare and powerful documentary made from some of the oldest known recordings with Holocaust survivors will premiere to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 2nd.
    The film is compiled from tapes recorded in the late 1970's and beyond of survivors of the Nazi holocaust.The idea started with a small group of survivors living in New Haven who began to video tape each other speaking of their personal accounts of World War Two.
    From the 10,000 hours in the archive, the directors screened more than 600 hours of tape and then whittled that down to a 6 hour film.After serious editing the final 1 and a half hour documentary.
    Videotaping of survivors continues in to this 20 different countries.To date, more than 10,00 hours of videotape interviews, archival film footage of the era and stills are found at the Yale archive.
    The Revson Foundation made the initial grant to start the archive at Yale.According to the film's director the testimony of the survivors is a unique way to learn about history, "we were learning about this critical moment in human history from people that had been there and you don't get there and you don't get to learn history that way very often and it was enriching us."
    The world broadcast premiere of "Witness: Voices from the Holocaust" is Monday (May 1).Simultaneously, the companion book from the Free Press will be going on sale in the United States and eventually around the world.
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