NJDocs
Only a Number
Episode 1 | 59m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A filmmaker's journey of rediscovery as he retraces his mother's steps.
New Jersey filmmaker Steve Besserman’s parents are both Holocaust survivors. Several years before she was stricken with dementia, his mother, Aranka, began to write memories of growing up in Hungary; being in ghettos and concentration camps; and how she met and fell in love with her husband. Besserman weaves his mother’s diaries together with his own journey to the places of which she wrote.
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NJDocs is a local public television program presented by NJ PBS
NJDocs
Only a Number
Episode 1 | 59m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
New Jersey filmmaker Steve Besserman’s parents are both Holocaust survivors. Several years before she was stricken with dementia, his mother, Aranka, began to write memories of growing up in Hungary; being in ghettos and concentration camps; and how she met and fell in love with her husband. Besserman weaves his mother’s diaries together with his own journey to the places of which she wrote.
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