Laurel Vlock

A television producer, in 1978 Vlock was given the assignment to produce a program on the commemoration of Yom Hashoah (Day of Holocaust Remembrance) in New Haven, Connecticut. To make it memorable, she interviewed Holocaust survivor Jerzy Kosinski. The result was so powerful that she realized that there were many such stories that needed to be captured before the witnesses died. She founded the Holocaust Survivors Film Project Inc. in 1979 to do just that, and archived the resulting testimonies at Yale University. In 1981, she won an Emmy Award for her documentary about Holocaust survivors, Forever Yesterday, and her work inspired similar work by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation. Vlock died July 8 of injuries from an auto accident. She was 74. From This is True for 9 July 2000 Suggestions for further reading: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Amazon Price: $6.99 Customer Review: This is a very good book and definitely worth reading. For me and my daughter, who was 11 when we read it, it just wasn't a great book. It did not pull us in the way a great book does, it didn't stay with us for long. What I did like about thi...   Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada Amazon Price: Customer Review: Hans Fallada's novel is compelling, disturbing and unforgettable and shows us why historians can bring us facts, but only artists can find the truth. Even now, decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, Every Man Dies Alone delivers a terrifying portra...   The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: What an excellent story. For me, a very different perspective on the war and the abuse of the Jewish people.   This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Classics) by Tadeusz Borowski Amazon Price: $10.08 Customer Review: For a while I tried to read this book with a highlighting pen. But I was using the pen to defend myself. By marking it I hoped to turn it into an object of contemplation; I was keeping it at a distance. Eventually highlighting it became intolerable--...   The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick Amazon Price: $7.92 Customer Review: "The Shawl" is one of those Holocaust themed novels that students of the subject must read. Other stories explore the events, while "The Shawl" shows the raw nerve of the survivor. Readers might be surprised by the brevity of the story - it's not eve...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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