Premiere Date: August 30, 2005
Synopsis
Is it possible to heal wounds and bitterness passed down through generations? An Orthodox Jewish father tries to alert his adult sons to the dangers of creating impenetrable barriers between themselves and those outside their faith. He takes them on an emotional journey to Poland to track down the family who risked their lives to hide their grandfather for more than two years during World War II. Like many children of survivors, the sons feel that Poland is a country that is incurably anti-Semitic, but it is precisely here that they meet people who personify the highest levels of compassion. Hiding and Seeking explores the Holocaust's effect on faith in God as well as faith in our fellow human beings. A co-presentation with the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
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I am curious- has the experience had any lasting effect on Mr Daum's 2 sons.
by Mindy
June 12, 2009, 5:14 PM
How to buy it for oversea?
I want to buy the video "Hiding & seeking" I'm historian, direcotr of an adult education center and responsible for teacher teaching Holocaust in Vienna.
I saw the film in Lodz Poland, last week.
Thank for your help.
i want to show this film for teachers and memeber of adult education
(No entry!)
Thanks
Robert Streibel
by Robert Streibel
June 25, 2009, 5:36 PM
The story of my life
Mr. Daum tried to find where his and his wife's parents lived in Poland before Nazi Attacks and how they survived from the massive killings. It reminded me when I escaped almost with nothing from Iran 25 years ago. I arrived NYC later on and a lady at CCNY helped me to stand on my feet. My English was not as good as now a days. She was talking to me in Yiddish and I was answering her in German. Later on my brother and my parents one by one joined me in NY. After many years, she is still sending me gifts for my daughters' birthdays, my annviersary and many other events.
When Mrs. Daum and her sons found where her father was hiding in Poland, all three of them started the cry. I could not stop crying either. It reminded me when I left Tehran and left my grand parents behgind and never saw them again.
I hope one day I and/or my children go and visit the grand parents graves in Tehran, if by then the stones are in one piece. The Hezb-o-allh in Iran is destroying Non-Muslims grave yards.
by Shahrokh Talmoud
July 3, 2009, 1:22 AM