TESTIMONIALS

Thomas Keneally

THOMAS KENEALLY is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer who gained worldwide attention when his best-known work, the Holocaust novel Schindler’s List, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture, directed by Steven Spielberg, in 1993.

After reading the memoir, Years Later We Would Remember, by Martin Kent, he commented:

“I was enlightened and engrossed.”

Dr. Michael Berenbaum

DR. MICHAEL BERENBAUM was the founding project director of the US Holocaust Museum, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Steven Spielberg’s The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He is currently Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute; Prof. in Philosophy at American Jewish University. The author and editor of 18 books on the Holocaust and other Jewish issues, he is widely considered the dean of Holocaust studies. Here is what he had to say about the documentary film, Years Later We Would Remember

“I saw Years Later We Would Remember some two years ago in an earlier version and I remember this film quite well. It is the journey of two generations, a son in search of his parents and their story and parents who must recall and transmit a painful past they repressed if they are to speak to their son. The tension between their needs is palpable. What results is a story of love and commitment amidst destruction, a glimpse into decency amidst death and devastation and of the price paid for love.

It is a journey forth that is most intensely a journey inward, a setting forth on a pilgrimage that in the end reunited father and son with a past that the son desperately sought to discover and the father to cast away.”

I recommend the film with enthusiasm.”

Theodore Bikel

THEODORE BIKEL is a film, stage, television and music legend, whose work has taken him across the globe many, many times. He is an Emmy Award-winning, and Oscar- and Tony-nominated actor, who made his screen debut opposite Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen. On Broadway, he originated the role of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. He was nominated for a Best Supporting Oscar for his role in The Defiant Ones. Mr. Bikel was a major player in the folk music boom of the 1960s, recording numerous albums and performing internationally. Together with Pete Seeger and George Wein, he co-founded the Newport Folk Festival. But perhaps his most indelible contribution to popular culture was as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which he has performed onstage over 2,000 times since 1967, Now in his 80s, he still performs frequently across the world.
Of Years Later We Would Remember, he said:

“I saw your film; what a fine achievement. The minute your mother appeared I knew I would love her; but I was not prepared for your father. He touched me deeply. What a noble soul, what quiet dignity, what courage — if anyone deserves to be counted among the Righteous Gentiles, it is he. Thank you for sharing this.”

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