I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

Directed by Ann Marie Fleming · Starring Bernice Eisenstein · 2010

An animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein's illustrated memoir about growing up as the daughter of Holocaust survivors and carrying their inherited trauma.

Humour and hand-drawn animation open up a rarely discussed second-generation trauma.

This short animation is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Using the healing power of humour, the film probes the taboos around a very particular second

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