We are producing a short film and a feature film at the same time.
The short documentary “13 Driver’s Licenses” features Christian Meißner, the county executive of Lichtenfels, Manfred Brösamle-Lambrecht, a local high-school history teacher, eleven students who conducted the research on the 13 driver’s license holders from 1938, and the descendant Lisa Salko, the granddaughter of Sigmund Marx, who was one of the license holders. The film was finalized in June of 2022.For the feature film, we will include more detailed stories of the license holders, their descendants, a contemporary witness from Lichtenfels, archivists, historians, governmental officers, and beyond. We seek funding for this project.
Production 2021, Germany and USA
June (New York), filming with Lisa Salko, Werner Nass (born in 1932), Inge Stanton (born in 1929).
We also interviewed Walter Maisel (born in 1927) , who as an 11-year-old child witnessed the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. We also interviewed the archivist Inge Goebel at the synagogue in Altenkunstadt.
October (Lichtenfels), we filmed the visit of Avner Zeliger & Merav Reon from Israel (the great-grandchildren of Sofie Seliger, who tragically died during Kristallnacht 1938), and county and town officials at the street-naming ceremony of “Sofie Seliger Weg” and the Jewish cemetery in Lichtenfels. This was part of the 1700-year celebration of Jewish life in Germany.
.
Production 2021, Germany and USA
April (New York), filming at the German Consulate General in New York.
May (New York), filming the sisters Evi Iglauer (born in 1932) & Lotte Reinhold (born in 1929), and Suzanne Loebl (born in 1925).
Production 2023, Germany and Poland
Our summer production took place in Lichtenfels (Germany) and Krasnystaw, Kraśniczyn, Sobibór, and Lublin (Poland). We are in the process of organizing photos.
