Two New Video Documentaries

Diamonds for a Glass of Water was a two-hour live show with the opportunity for viewers to call in. Participants were Holocaust survivors, UNR scholars and several members of the Center’s Board of Directors. Throughout the program, excerpts from Professor Hertling’s Emmy-nominated video documentary Memories of the Holocaust (KNPB-Reno 1995) were shown. Diamonds was co-produced by the Center and SNCAT-Reno. Since its initial airing on May 12, 1996, the program has been broadcast at least 20 times on SNCAT-Reno. Based on the many call-ins, letters and phone calls received by the station and the Center, viewers were really moved by this program.

But not only local viewers....even the wider world was watching.... In October 1996, SNCAT-Reno and the Center were awarded the prestigious W.A.V.E. Award for Diamonds for a Glass of Water.

The Shuffle Of Little Shoes Left Behind was an 80-minute interview program with four individuals who survived the Holocaust as children. Featured were the award-winning author of children’s books Sonia Levitin, who now lives in Beverly Hills and the Distinguished Professor of German from Wayne State University in Detroit, Dr. Guy Stern. Ms. Levitin left Germany in 1937 at the age of three and Guy Stern was 14 when his parents sent him to safety in the United States. His family perished in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1945--by that time a member of the US Armed Forces--Guy Stern was among those who liberated the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. Today, Professor Stern is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The third person, Professor Deborah Vietor-Englander of Mainz, Germany, was a child of Holocaust survivors. Several of her family perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The fourth individual interviewed was Professor Laureen Nussbaum from Portland Oregon, a childhood friend of Anne Frank. Professor Nussbaum survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Holland. At the end of the program, there is a brief interview segment with Dr. Viktoria Hertling, the Director of the Center.

Since its initial airing in November 1996, Shuffle has been featured on SNCAT-Reno at least 10 times to high acclaim. The four interviewed guests came to Reno in October 1996 as participants of an international conference organized by the Center on the campus of the University of Nevada. A copy of this unique and important video is available through SNCAT-Reno by calling 702-828-1211.