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In Traces, Voices of the Second Generation we hear directly from children of Holocaust survivors, known as the Second Gen. They tell their parents’ remarkable survival stories and explore what it was like to grow up with parents who survived history’s darkest of evils.

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Upcoming Traces Screenings
May 6 | Cinemateque Tel Aviv, Israel

Recent Screenings
Aberdeen, New Jersey
Bristol, UK
Gainesville, Florida
Haifa, Israel
Jacksonville, Florida
Los Angeles, California
Portland, Oregon
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida

Festivals
Accolade Global Film Competition
All that Moves International Film Festival
Aravali International Film Festival
Bedford Documentary Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival International
California Capital International Documentary Film Festival
History, Arts and Sciences International Do Fest
International Documentary Film Festival
International Moving Film Festival
Lane Doc Fest
Mumbai Bollywood International Film Festival
New Hope Film Festival
Oil Valley Film Festival
Palm Beach Film Festival, Florida
Palm Beach International Film Festival, Florida
Rome Prisma Film Awards
YellowHammer Film Festival

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What people are saying about Traces

As a third generation of a Holocaust survivor, I have heard my grandfather's stories [Henri Landwirth], as well as stories from my father, but it was so interesting to hear how different and how similar other Second Generation survivors' upbringings were. Excellent job. It's no surprise that the documentary has been so successful in its release and response.

Max Landwirth, film producer, Third Generation of Holocaust Survivor Henri Landwirth
3rd Generation
This film was so well done and captured the deep feelings of what is was like to grow up as a child of survivor. Each person shed light on their parents’ life and how it emotionally impacted them.

Barbara Goldstein
Second Gen and Holocaust Education Resource Council Director
This is a film like no other I have ever experienced! It is so dense in researched information and invaluable 2nd Gen testimony. Thank you for making this important film so the survivor stories will not pass with their passing.

Nancy Pettus
former Director of Holocaust Education at the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Even before Oct 7, we would have been very moved by the presentation. The message is a clear one in my Christian family as well, that human beings are capable of doing unimaginable evil things, and that survivors who are affected by such acts are never the same, but there is still hope and no real option but to go on and try to be a little better in spite of the wrongs that were done.

Dr. Michael Bleacher
Professor MA, Denver Seminary, MS, Regis Jesuit University
The testimony is incredibly moving, the words blended with the images are beautiful, poignant, searingly painful, uplifting and motivating. The major accomplishment of this video is to convey the pain of survivors and 2nd generation survivors and to show (perhaps uniquely - because I haven't seen anything like it) how the Holocaust had many impacts beyond the horror of the camps.

Rebecca Jefferson, PhD
University of Florida Price Library of Judaica Curator
Eloquent. Poetic. Moving. The Second Gen were all so comfortable and easy to watch. I loved the animation. The colored details! Morris' yellow bowtie- my personal favorite. VERY well done. Brava!

Deborah Reid P.A.
Empowering Artists + Innovators
On UN World Holocaust Remembrance Day, OneJax is pleased to support Traces, Voices of the Second Generation. It is important to always remember how evil can take root by targeting a population of people. In remembering we vow to fight against it ever happening again.

Kyle Reese, Executive Director
OneJax Institute | University of North Florida