On March 17, 2021, the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) participated in a virtual premier of Still Life in Lodz, a documentary film about what happened to the Jewish residents of this Polish city in the period before, during and after WWII. HMTC held a post-screening discussion with the film’s director, Slawomir Grünberg, one of the film’s writers, Lilka Elbaum, and one of the family members who traces his history in the film, Paul Celler.
If you missed the discussion you can watch it now on youtube:
Slawomir Grünberg is an award-winning director, producer and cinematographer of documentary films. As a graduate of the Directing Department of the Lodz Film School, he emigrated to the USA in 1981 and has since directed and produced over 45 documentaries concerning social, environmental and disability issues. Winner of numerous international awards, including an Emmy Award for “School Prayer: A Community at War,” he has also won a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts and Soros Justice Media Fellowship.
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