Trevor Anderson's The Man Who Got Away

Claudette Godfrey programs the shorts for SXSW but man, I flipped out when I realized we'd shown this.  LOVE.

Ben Barenholtz speaks

Surprising, beautiful words from Ben Barenholtz.  A man I've known since the early 1980s, knew him first from his name on the screen, but never had any idea of his personal history until now.

http://nekyiajourney.blogspot.com/

TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013

Exactly seventy years ago today I was sitting on a rock waiting for my father to arrive, a wait that continues to this day. The last word he spoke before the shots rang out was

           

RUN

It seems like I’ve never stopped running.

My father was a Mensche. He taught us to survive, and because of the kind of person he was, we were helped by people who risked their lives so that we could keep ours’. Because of a Polish farmer and a Ukrainian Peasant and their Menschlichkeit, my brother and I are alive today. We are the last of the survivors. We never indulged in pre-pubescent dreams of vengeance and violence.

I never mourned him or said Kaddish, but made this day sacred and decided to make it a celebration of Menschlichkeit.

Soon I will join him and I know that the last word that will still ring in my ears will be

RUN

NY Observer article from 2005

A blast from the past article that really made us laugh today upon revisiting.

Observer article: The Big Sell-Out