ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture presents the 33rd San Diego International Jewish Film Festival (SDIJFF), which will showcase 35 feature films over the next 17 days in-person at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre.
"Yoram visited the site in the early 2000s, and he thought he would find a museum and he would find records of his family," filmmaker Gary Hochman explains."When he got there, all he saw was a forest, an open field, a statue and a 1960s memorial at the edge of this open field, which is where the mass graves were supposed to be. Yoram was perplexed by the whole thing.
And that is where the film makes its most vivid impact. Research leads the team to find photos of the young victims and to personalize those numbers in a heartbreaking way. But the film also manages to find joy in unexpected ways that I do not want to spoil. As Holocaust survivors die, there are fewer eye witnesses to the events that happened. That's why Hochman believes documenting the Holocaust and teaching about it is vital.
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