Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Henriette Roosenburg
Henriette Roosenburg( 26 May 1916 – 1972) was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner, perhaps best known for her memoir" The Walls Came Tumbling Down", about her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of World War II.
Born in the Netherlands to an upper-class family, she was a graduate student at the University of Leiden at the start of World War II and became a courier in the Dutch resistance, where she served under the code name Zip.
During this time she also wrote for the Dutch newspaper" Het Parool".
In 1944 she was caught and sentenced to death, and became a" Night and Fog prisoner" in a German prison at Waldheim.
At Waldheim, Henriette and the other prisoners were severely undernourished, and spent most of their free time embroidering bits of cloth with terse iconography about their experience.
For instance, one section of Roosenburg's embroidery shows a crude drawing of a gun to indicate that the prisoners had heard what they thought was Allied gunfire, as well as the names" Nel" and" Joke"( pronounced" Yoe- kuh") in Morse code to indicate that she was in solitary confinement, that Nell and Joke were in the two adjacent cells, and that they communicated by tapping Morse code on the walls.
Henriette and the other prisoners were released on 6 May 1945; Henriette and four other Dutch NN prisoners( Dries, Nell, Joke, and Fafa, a Dutch NN prisoner with severe arthritis) had a chance to return to the Netherlands a few days later when the U.S. Army arrived with trucks to carry people through the Russian lines.
However, Fafa's arthritis was so severe that she could not walk; and the surrounding roads were largely unpaved and rough.
The other four did not believe that Fafa would survive the trip even if there were room for her cot -- and there was not room for her cot; the truck was densely packed and offered standing room only.
The group had heard that the Russians intended to send displaced persons back home via Odessa, a port in Ukraine on the Black Sea; considering that too far of a side trip, Dries, Nell, Joke, and Henriette stayed behind to take Fafa to a local civilian hospital instead, and then set out on their own for the Netherlands.
The Russians had established sentries along major routes, including bridges, and were disallowing all unauthorized travel for fear German soldiers would escape along with former German POWs.
Henriette and her friends, through bartering and guile, came to travel along Elbe River in a small boat from Waldheim to Coswig, where they were accosted by Russian soldiers and taken to a displaced persons camp populated by Belgians, Dutch, and Italians.
On 6 June 1945 Roosenburg and a group of Dutch people were exchanged for a group of Russian POWs; they made their way to a Red Cross camp where they found that only the French and Belgians would be flying home; the rest would have to wait several weeks until a truck came.
Roosenburg convinced a Dutch captain to give her group documentation stating that they were political prisoners and should have priority in transportation home; the paperwork she suggested did not mention their nationality, and so left them free to impersonate French or Belgian political prisoners.
The next day Roosenburg and 15 other Dutch set out for Halle airfield, where they convinced an American soldier to allow them flight on the next plane to Belgium.
Once in Belgium, the group set about calling friends and friends' friends to tell them they were alive and on their way home, and on 12 June they arrived at a monastery in the southern
Netherlands where she and her friends were housed with between 1500 and 2000 others.
The Netherlands had just been recently liberated and was suffering famine; as a result, trains to the north of the Netherlands only ran every three or four weeks.
But Roosenburg happened to meet her cousin, Dirk Roosenburg, who had become a first lieutenant in the Dutch Army; he arranged for Henriette and her friends to be driven north the next day, where they reunited with their families.
After the war, Henriette became a correspondent for Time Inc., serving in Paris and The Hague, and then New York City for a decade.
At the beginning of her stay in New York, she wrote the book" The Walls Came Tumbling Down" about her experience traveling from Waldheim to the Netherlands, and was later awarded the Bronze Lion of the Netherlands.
She died in 1972 at the age of 56.
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lee Bowman and Marguerite Chapman.
Ralph Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy Sr.( March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister.
He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948.
As a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association which led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
He also co-founded and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference( SCLC).
He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968, where he led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. among other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans.
He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality( CORE).
In 1971, Abernathy addressed the United Nations about world peace.
He also assisted in brokering a deal between the FBI and Indian protestors during the Wounded Knee incident of 1973.
He retired from his position as President of the SCLC in 1977 and became president emeritus.
That year he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 5th district of Georgia.
He later founded the Foundation for Economic Enterprises Development, and he testified before the U.S. Congress in support of extending of the Voting Rights Act in 1982.
In 1989, Abernathy wrote" And the Walls Came Tumbling Down", a controversial autobiography about his and King's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
He was ridiculed for statements in the book about King's alleged marital infidelities.
Abernathy eventually became less active in politics and returned to his work as a minister.
He died of heart disease on April 17, 1990.
His tombstone is engraved with the words" I tried".
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.
Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes (19 May 1894 – 24 February 1974) was a Jewish German-born screenwriter and film director.
who began his career as an actor in Vienna and Berlin in Max Reinhardt's famous troupe.
He went to America in the early 1920s and there he remained until 1933, directing more than a dozen features, mostly frothy comedies, while under contract to Paramount.
His films included the last silent film made in America, "The Four Feathers" (1929) and the murder mystery "Payment Deferred" (1933) starring British actor Charles Laughton.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Jo Eisinger
Jo Eisinger( 1909 – 1991) was a film and television writer whose career spanned more than 40 years from the early 1940s well into the 1980s.
He is widely recognized as the writer of two of the most psychologically complex film noirs," Gilda"( 1946) and" Night and the City"( 1950).
His credits also include" The Sleeping City"( 1950) and" Crime of Passion"( 1957), a coda to the films of the noir style, for which he wrote the story as well as the screenplay.
Starring Barbara
Stanwyck, it's a strikingly modern commentary about how women were driven mad by the limitations imposed upon them in the postwar period.
Jo Eisinger started writing for radio penning numerous segments for" The Adventures of Sam Spade" series.
He returned to thriller and private eye adventure series writing for the ITC television series" Danger Man"( 1960 – 61) and the mid-1980s HBO series" Philip Marlowe, Private Eye".
His script for an episode of the latter show," The Pencil", earned him a 1984 Edgar Award.
Eisinger's credits also include several films that departed from his accustomed genres of mystery, adventure and crime.
Among them are" Oscar Wilde"( 1960), starring Robert Morley and Sir Ralph Richardson," The RoverL' Avventuriero", 1967), from the novel by Joseph Conrad and starring Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and" The Jigsaw Man"( 1983), starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Terence Young.
Eisinger wrote the books on which the Broadway plays" What Big Ears!"( 1942) and" A Point of Honor"( 1937) were based.
His novel" The Walls Came Tumbling Down"( 1943) was adapted for the long- running radio drama program" Suspense" in 1944; the episode featured screen and radio actors Keenan Wynn and Hans Conried.
A film version of" The Walls Came Tumbling Down" starring Edgar Buchanan and George Macready was released in 1946.
Jo Eisinger's second marriage was to Lorain Beaumont.
Eisinger used his wife's maiden name for Mr. Beaumont, one of the characters in" The Walls Came Tumbling Down".

Question: What nationality is the director of film The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Film)?
Answer: German