Natalie Bauman, founder of Sunrise Sunset Documentaries and the Digital Mosaic, an iPad app that allows people to record their memories and life stories, has produced a documentary chronicling the experiences of four Holocaust survivors living in Cleveland.
 
The Remembering Project, which was made with a grant from the Saltzman Youth Panel of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, brought on board four area high school students to help with the production and learn first-hand about the Holocaust. The film will premiere Tuesday at Montefiore Home.
 
The piece tells the survival stories of Irene Weiner, Roni Berenson, Michael Pupa and Alex Zelczer. “This is a piece of history; this matters,” says Bauman. “This is not your everyday work project – these are moments in someone’s life. They chose to dredge it up and speak about it to teach others.”
 
Weiner, who lives at Montefiore with her husband, Marvin, suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.  Irene came to the United States as a teenager, but with the help of Marvin tells her story because she doesn’t want the personal horrors of the Holocaust to be forgotten.
 
“People should know what they did,” Weiner says. “I was lucky I survived because I was young.”
 
Sarah Axner, a social worker at Montefiore, says the experience has been good for the Weiners and other residents. “As an aging services agency guided by Jewish values we recognize the importance of speaking about their experiences,” she says. “Hopefully there is therapeutic value in it and will encourage other survivors to speak out.”
 
The Remembering Project will debut Tuesday, January 13 at 7pm at Montefiore’s Maltz Auditorium. Admission is free.
 
The documentary will also be available online and through Montefiore’s YouTube channel. Organizations and schools can contact Melissa Adell about obtaining a copy of The Remembering Project. A study guide created by Daniel Weiss, Judaic Studies teacher at Gross Schechter Day School, is available as well.

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