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Filmmaker: Brian McKenna
DVD - $ 95.00
Price listed includes Public Performance License.
In this powerful and candid documentary, a Holocaust survivor refuses to become embittered or broken by the tragedy. Jack Garfein, now a successful Broadway producer, returns to Auschwitz to confront his past. The sole survivor of his family he searches for the truth behind the atrocities of the camps.

Garfein retraces his youth by examining public records, visiting his family home in Bardejov (in what is now the Czech Republic), and returning to Auschwitz. As he moves through the busy streets of Bardejov and the silent paths at Auschwitz, A Journey Back becomes a vivid, personal record of one man's odyssey to reclaim his heritage.

Running time: 59 min., Year released: 2010
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: dvd
ISBN: 1-55974-830-3
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

Reviews:

"A moment of truth as powerful, as resonant, as affecting as anything you are likely to see."
--The Globe & MailToronto

"A fascinating participatory story that breaks all the journalism school rules."
--The Sun (Vancouver)

Other Credits:

fifth estate series, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Directed by Brian McKenna

Reporter Eric Malling

Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival
This title can also be found in: * New Releases *, American Film Festival Award Winners, Art & Artists (Visual), Autobiographies/Self-Portraits, Europe, Germany, History, Holocaust, Jewish Culture & History, Religion, World War II
 

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