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An accompanying book of
more extensive interviews
(published by The Free Press;
$26) complements the film
for use in educational settings.
"Like many of the chil-
dren of the '60s, I had per-
haps a two-week unit on the
Holocaust in high school
and figured that's all I need-
ed or wanted to know,"
Greene said. "Watching the
tapes was a shock because,
first of all, it alerted me to
how little I understood."
Frank G. of Germany
speaks of his school experi-
ence during Hitler's rise to
power. "Students were to
learn what makes a differ-
ence between a blond, blue-
eyed pure Aryan to a Jew,"
he recalls.
The stark testimonies are
played for the audience
"Contrary to our
their usual work but have
without narration to "avoid
expectations and
stumbled upon a subject
imposing any third-person
perhaps also to our
they hope to continue in
narrator or editorializing on desires, witnesses do
the future. A film about
experiences of the witness-
the war crimes trial at
not appear here as
es," Greene said. There's "no heroes or martyrs,
Dachau is in the works as
attempt in this film to glam- labels they firmly
Witness continues to gar-
orize survival," he added.
ner nominations and
reject, but as
When asked what her
awards, including top
chroniclers of a
tattooed number is, Hanna melancholy and
honors at the Houston
F. of Poland answers,
International Film
dreadful
tale,"
writes
"50069.
Festival.
Holocaust historian
"I still have it. I'm not
Kumar
sees the film as an
ashamed of it. They should Lawrence Langer in
opportunity
to open the
the accompanying
be ashamed of it."
subject of the Holocaust
book's introduction.
Father John S. of
to a wider audience. "I am
Czechoslovakia watched as
not Jewish; I did not
Jews were deported to concentration
come at this from a specifically Jewish
camps; he helped hide non-Jewish
vantage point," he said.
partisans slated for deportation.
For both Kumar and Greene, the
"I never saw anything like that in
film is a way to transport events of the
my life," he says of a man who was
past into the present.
beaten after asking for some water.
"Did we really learn anything,"
In further testimony transcribed in
Helen K. asks in the last line of the
the book, he continues, "I see it, per-
film. "I don't know," she answers, as
sonally, as the greatest tragedy of my
the film trails off. ❑
life that Jewish people were deported
all around me. I didn't do anything. I
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
panicked."
airs
10 p.m. Monday, May 1, on
Helen K. speaks of her resistance
Detroit
Public Television-
while working in an ammunition fac-
Channel 56. More information
tory, and of the actions taken by
can be found at the films' Web
neighbors during the Warsaw Ghetto
site, www.strmedia.com/witness .
uprising.
For more information about sur-
"We weren't really that passive. If
vivors'
testimonies in the
you want to look at history, countries
Fortunoff
Video Archive for
like France or Belgium or Holland,
Holocaust
Testimonies at Yale
they went in a few days," she says.
University,
which are catalogued
"The Warsaw Ghetto was holding out
in databases and available on the
for four weeks. Even Poland didn't
Internet, go to the Web site at
hold out for four weeks."
www.library.yale.edu/testimonies.
Producers of children's films,
Greene and Kumar have not given up
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