Searching For Identity Documentary Films
Searching For Identity: the Second Gen Experience
Where does your identity as child of survivor end and your own identity begin? Is there, can there be, a distinction?
What is the experience of those who inherit the Holocaust experience? Who will bear witness to the Holocaust experience when the survivors are no more?
These extraordinary experiences can serve as a powerful tool to increase understanding and compassion inside, and outside, of the Jewish community.
Presently in production, this documentary film is was inspired by essays written in Searching For Identity’s early Writing Workshops in Jacksonville, Florida.
The film conveys how the Holocaust’s effects seep across generational divides and ripple through generations of families. To know these stories is to raise awareness and better care for those with similar reactions as a result of their parents’ traumatic experiences.
The Second Gen Experience will speak to other second-generation survivors, letting them know that they are not alone.
It will serve the academic world, as a vital, historical documented resource and be an important educational tool in the classroom.
A guidebook will accompany film for educators, social workers, mental health workers, writers and parents, providing instruction for establishing their own writing workshop.
The Legacy of Joseph A. Strasser
From an American immigrant eight-year-old to life-changing philanthropist, The Legacy of Josesph A. Strasser focuses on a man who avoids the public, yet has worked tirelessly throughout his life to ensure civic responsibility.
An in-depth look at the life of a man who escaped the Nazis with his little brother and started a new life in the United States, Joseph A. Strasser ultimately achieves the American immigrant dream.
Joseph A. Strasser has devoted his life to supporting educational endeavors, early-education crime prevention, environmental efforts and animal wellness. His personal acts of kindness go unrecognized, yet his deeds are appreciated by thousands of adults, children, the environment and animals, who have no public voice. The film highlights a man who attributes his incredibly financial success to one thing: the opportunity to make a new life in America.
SFI Film Archive: Voices of the Second Gen
With presently over 30 Second-Gen Holocaust Survivor filmed interviews to date, Searching for Identity has launched the Voices of the Second Gen Film Archive.
Each unabridged interview, averaging one to two hours, has been compiled in a growing library of Second-Gen interviews.
Preserving these histories of the inherited effects of the Holocaust, from the children of survivors is vital. The archive will serve an excellent educator tool, resource for academic scholarship and a historical knowledge for the public
The complete collection will be securely available digitally online and housed at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries Price Library of Judaica.