The Impact of Animation in Holocaust Remembrance

The Ghetto Fighters’ House Invites You to the Upcoming Program: The Impact of Animation in Holocaust Remembrance

Opening Remarks: 

Dr. Judith S. Goldstein – Founder and Executive Director Emeritus Humanity in Action

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Slawomir Grunberg – Award Winning Director and Producer

Breaking the Rules:  Integrating Animation in Holocaust Documentary Film

Ron Ayalon – Motion Graphic Specialist & Yuval Nathan – Video Storyteller

Behind the Scenes of Creating Animated Films

Tamar Herzberg – Curator, Yad Mordechai & Yaron Tzur – Director of Digital Content, Ghetto Fighters’ House

The Role of Animation in Holocaust Education in the Museum

The incorporation of animation in Holocaust remembrance has become a fast-growing phenomenon.  Today’s program will take an overall look at the ways in which animation has become an integral part of documentary films, as well as educational programs, that focus on the Holocaust.

Our first speaker is Dr. Slawomir Grunberg, who will bring examples from his documentary films and discuss his extensive research on the subject.  Two specialists in the field, Ron Ayalon and Yuval Nathan, will give us a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process in making two new animation films made for the Yad Mordechai Museum, examining why they chose animation as an educational tool in teaching about the Holocaust. Finally, we will have Tamar Herzberg, curator at Yad Mordechai, and Yaron Tzur, director of digital content at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, present examples of how animated film is being used in the museum space.

This program is in partnership with Yad Mordechai from Holocaust to Revival Museum, Humanity in Action, Classrooms Without Borders, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Center, and the Rabin Chair Forum at George Washington University.