Filmmaker Hershey Felder took local students to the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps in Poland to film the documentary
“The Assembly,” a new documentary featuring San Diego students exploring their own roots while visiting Holocaust memorial sites in Poland last fall, has been selected as the finale screening for the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival on May 24.
The students are Katelin Banman, Yzabel Ugalde, Colette Giganti, Isaiah Joshua Foster, Giovanny Diaz de Leon, Alexander Meeder, Olive Benito and Romeo Boccarella.Felder, who lost his extended Polish family in the Holocaust, initially produced the film as a two-part streaming travelogue-style documentary last fall.
When first presented in two parts last fall, the films mostly followed the students as they listened to tour guides, learning the history of the Holocaust and hearing snippets of Eva’s story from Eleanor Reissa, an actress cast to portray the older Eva, performing passages from Libitzky’s autobiography.
In the new condensed film, the plot focuses more on Eva’s story, starting with her childhood and progressing through her days at Auschwitz, with Reissa as narrator. The students are emotional observers, several of them clearly learning for the first time the full extent of the horrors of the Holocaust as the camera rolls.
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