The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz Toby Trackman • London The Last Musician of Auschwitz is a complex, powerful film which uses the surprising existence of music in the camp to explore the role of art in preserving a sense of humanity in the face of the most terrible violations. Director of the … Continue reading The making of the Last Musician of Auschwitz
This fifty-minute documentary film explores the Holocaust’s impact on the children of survivors, including recorded interviews. They share their families’ true stories and explore the complexities of having Holocaust survivors as parents. It is produced by Tracey Goldring who is founder of Searching for Identity, an organisation that works with second and third generation of … Continue reading TRACES – Voices of the Second Generation
In this talk, Esther Saraga explores her complex and ambivalent relationships as daughter and academic to a vast collection of family papers concerned with my parents’ forced migration from Nazi Germany. She recognised that the letters do not ‘speak for themselves’, but tell several different possible stories. I have used the papers to explore ‘how … Continue reading Berlin to London: An Emotional History of two Refugees
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