Tag: ChaiFlicks
Challah Across Generations: Witnessing a Living Tradition
In 1975, Jane, then 34, films her grandmother, Ida Rosen—a young 97—standing in her kitchen preparing challah for Shabbos. It is remarkable to see...
Mashhad: A Melancholy Mystery
A short film that pivotally impacts the body as much as the mind, Mashhad, directed by Sarah Solemani, moves through the political realities of...
Tightroping on the Shoelace of Survival: Nyosha
The film opens with the voice of Holocaust survivor Nomi Kapel, speaking in Hebrew as subtitles display her recorded testimony across the screen. Her...
Paper Bodies, Blue Sky: Witnessing *Survivor*
By Tobe Pilato
(The Hollywood Times) 2/23/26 - As the great-granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor from Poland, I grew up inside the mandate to never forget....