It seems inevitable, that if someone is in pain or grief within a family, everyone in the house can feel it to some extent. I know the survivors are very worried about the information of the Holocaust being passed on. The second generation is in a unique position to carry these stories into the future. We have the distance the survivors don't have to deal with the emotional aspects, not just the facts and history. Yet we are close enough to the source to feel some of the survivor's pain.
Images lose their power over time.
People have grown accustomed to the black and white footage of the atrocities and camps - they no longer present the horror or sadness they did in their time, when no one could comprehend their evil. For this to happen, new ways of imparting the stories and the feelings must be used, to continue the remembrance, and thus the chain of Jewish continuity. Father and son using our own actual hair. My film is a look at the effects of the Holocaust on the second generation. It has taken me many years to slowly unravel and understand the effects my father's experience has had on me and my family.