Silence, interrupted

30.01.2011                     25.Shevat, 5771

Feature:

Silence, interrupted

Film director Yael Hersonski tried to ignore the Holocaust, but a Nazi propaganda movie made in the Warsaw Ghetto forced her to confront it from a unique perspective. Her prizewinning documentary, 'A Film Unfinished,' is the result.

"Since I was the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and because of the fact that the first letters and numbers I ever saw were the numbers on her arm – the Holocaust was etched in me more strongly than anything else," she says today. "But my grandmother never talked about what she saw during the Holocaust, and I always felt that her silence was more powerful than any attempt to tell the story. Through her silence, she chose to live."…