{"id":59696,"date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-film-lecturer-to-screen-holocaust-documentary-at-united-nations-jan-28-in-honor-of-international-holocaust-remembrance-day\/"},"modified":"2015-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-film-lecturer-to-screen-holocaust-documentary-at-united-nations-jan-28-in-honor-of-international-holocaust-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/01\/uri-film-lecturer-to-screen-holocaust-documentary-at-united-nations-jan-28-in-honor-of-international-holocaust-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 film lecturer to screen Holocaust documentary at United Nations, Jan. 28, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I., Jan. 16, 2015 \u2013 On April 11, 1945, the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American soldiers. They found 904 boys, all living in a disease-ridden filthy barn, alone, without their parents.<\/p>\n


\nIt was a miracle they survived. Some of those boys turned into men, and some of those men made the wrenching journey back to the camp decades later, with 溏心vlog免费B站 filmmaker Robert Cohen artfully documenting every step.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe result was Cohen\u2019s documentary \u201cKinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald,\u201d so highly regarded it was selected to be screened at the United Nations in New York City in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. <\/p>\n


\nFree and open to the public, the film will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in the U.N.\u2019s conference room 3. Cohen will answer questions afterward. Other events at the U.N. are also planned throughout the week, including talks and exhibits.<\/p>\n


\nCohen, a lecturer in the Harrington School of Communication and Media, says he was thrilled when he found out the film, released in 2012, was chosen.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cIt\u2019s nice to have your work recognized,\u201d says Cohen, who divides his time between New York and Rhode Island. \u201cThe Holocaust is such a meaningful topic. I know there are a lot of Holocaust books and films, but every addition to that shelf is valuable and important.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHe came up with the idea for the project years ago when a friend asked if he would make a documentary about his father, Alex Moskovic, one of boys who survived Buchenwald.<\/p>\n

To commemorate the 65th anniversary, in 2010, of the camp\u2019s liberation, the Buchenwald Foundation tracked down Moskovic and other survivors and offered to pay for a three-day visit back to the camp, in Weimar. In addition to Moskovic, Cohen also followed three other men on their journey: Naftali-Duro Furst and Israel-Laszlo Lazar, both of Israel, and Pavel Kohn of Prague.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was an extraordinary weekend,\u201d says Cohen. \u201cThere were tears.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBuchenwald was one of the largest German concentration camps. In 1944, teenage boys, most of whom had lost family members, flooded the camp. Adult prisoners in a Communist-led underground movement protected and cared for the boys, creating a children\u2019s barracks, Block 66.<\/p>\n


\n\tLiving conditions were horrible: mud floors, freezing, cramped. \u201cImagine a barn with 1,500 people, and they\u2019re stacked up on beds that look like bookshelves,\u201d says Cohen. Block 66 was so infested with disease SS guards seldom went there. The block leaders are largely credited with saving the boys\u2019 lives by removing them from the Nazi\u2019s gaze.<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter the camp\u2019s liberation, the 904 youngsters who survived were \u201c scattered to the four winds\u201d all over the world. Europe was covered with boys, and girls, \u201cwandering around,\u201d trying to reconnect with their parents, only to discover that they were dead, Cohen says.<\/p>\n


\n\tMoskovic lost 41 family members \u2013 \u201cMother, father, brothers, uncles, aunts, cousins,\u201d says Cohen. At 15, Moskovic boarded a ship to America to start over, as much as he could. He worked for 30 years as a production editor at ABC Sports, and today lives in Florida. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was profound for all these men to go back to Buchenwald,\u201d says Cohen. \u201cThey managed it in different ways. Each of them had to create their own relationship with the past. Some were thrust back in that moment; others were able to have a little more separation because of the 65 years.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAll four men, Cohen says, went on to lead healthy and productive lives. \u201cThey all have grandchildren,\u201d Cohen says. \u201cTo them, that\u2019s a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAt 溏心vlog免费B站 since 2012, Cohen teaches film production and history, and the business of media. \u201cI love being part of 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d he says. \u201cThe work I do needs to be fresh and original all the time, and working with young people keeps me fresh and original. Being in a community of the mind has irreplaceable value.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nCohen has a long career in film. He created CBS\u2019 NextWorld and FutureCar, which aired on the Discovery Channel; produced the film The Longest River, part of the PBS series Quest; and even directed an opening film for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n


\n As a writer and director in advertising and corporate media, he has created film and television spots for General Motors, Cisco, GAP, Sony, McDonald\u2019s and General Electric.

\nFor information about Kinderblock 66:, visit Return to Buchenwald<\/a> or Kinderblock 66<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\n Robert Cohen, a lecturer in the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and director of Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald.<\/p>\n


\n Left to right, Alex Moskovic, Israel-Laszlo Lazar, Pavel Kohn and Naftali-Duro Furst, at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

\nPhotos courtesy of Robert Cohen.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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