ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS (TV)
Summary
This documentary special examines the atrocities of the Holocaust from the personal perspective of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann. As Weissmann recounts the story of her wartime experiences on screen, still photographs and film footage from the prison camps are shown. Events and topics covered in Weissmann's narrative include: the German invasion of Poland in 1939 when she was fifteen; how her family moved into the basement of her home after her brother was taken away; when the Nazis began shipping people to slave labor camps; what it was like seeing her father for the last time; how the women were deported shortly after the men; being separated from her mother and put on a truck with other young girls; talking to some of the girls on the truck and betting when the war would end; working in a slave labor factory which made fabric for the German army; how Weissmann contemplated suicide to end her severe depression; how the Nazis brought the prisoners on a trek, known as "death marches," in order to cover up evidence of any wrong doings; how long the death march lasted and the extreme winter conditions they were forced to walk through with no food; why her father told her to always wear her ski boots instead of sandals; having a childhood girlfriend die in her arms overnight; how, under heavy assault from United States troops, the Nazis fled and left the remaining prisoners in an abandoned factory; how she was discovered by a German-born Jew, Lieutenant Kurt Klein, and liberated shortly after; and her marriage to Klein in 1946. This program is closed-captioned. (Contains some graphic footage.)
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Michael Finkelstein and Sue-ann Friedman.
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: May 7, 1995 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:39:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:42749
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Concentration camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); She Made It Collection (Sheila Nevins)
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV, 1995
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Stephanie Liss … Executive Producer
- Sheila Nevins … Senior Producer
- Josef Zuk Piwkowski … Supervising Producer
- Kary Antholis … Producer, Director
- Michael Berenbaum … Co-Producer
- Raye Farr … Co-Producer
- Anne Sundberg … Associate Producer
- Olga Krupaurova … Researcher
- Linda Lilienfeld … Researcher
- Jutta Sartory … Researcher
- Robert Summers … Researcher
- Richard Fiocca … Music by
- Sandra W. Bradley … Interviewer
- Peter Thomas … Narrator
- Gerda Weissmann Klein
- Kurt Klein