Yizkor

Short animated students' film. Years after her grandparents have died, the filmmaker discovers her grand-mother’s memoir revealing their experiences during the holocaust. The story of a woman’s struggle to keep herself and her children alive in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The film uses director's grandmother’s own words, along with animation, archival material and present-day Super 8 footage, to tell that story, one of survival and resilience in the face of crushing loss.