The Jotter of Rotter

One of the first assignments in our course was to watch the documentary A Film Unfinished, which tries to contextualize raw footage for an intended Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto that was found in East-German archives after World War II. The reflections by the students were quite insightful and picked up on a number […]

One of the most memorable sessions was the meeting with Manya Friedman, a Holocaust Survivor. After telling us about her ordeal in Nazi occupied Poland where she lost almost all of her formerly large family, she talked about her life in the US. When her son got married, the photographer wanted to take separate pictures […]