Tonight AFS joined with the Austin Jewish Film Festival and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to show this hour of 3 interviews not included in the 1985 epic, SHOAH. Q&A followed with staff from the Holocaust Memorial Museum. As always the survivors' testimonies are gut wrenching.
An elderly woman, Ruth Elias, interviewed in Israel and originally from Czechoslovakia, offers a story that is devastating and cruel yet throughout it all she talks about her determination to live. She is the embodiment of someone who has learned to go on from the ashes that someone thought they could make of her life. They were wrong as we are reminded over and over again.
This film is personal as well. Abe is a child of Holocaust survivors and both of our children have reminded us more than once that their beginnings began in a monumental horrific event when their grandparents met in a concentration camp. Their family history and Abe's extraordinary life from Berlin to NYC has shaped them well I believe and brought them invaluable life lessons. A bow here to 95 year old Ruth Moskowitz in NYC. Someone who has shown me over and over again how much she yearns to live, regardless of her losses.
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