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They Survived Together
EMMY AWARD WINNER
"BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY"
“They Survived Together” is a story of endurance,unity and hope. “They Survived Together” is the incredible, true story of the survival of the Neiger family, as they desperately try to stay together as a family while escaping certain death by the Nazis- with four small children! The Neiger family was living a peaceful life in a tight-knit Jewish community in Krakow when the arrival of World War II changed their lives forever. When Nazi soldiers forced the Neiger family from their home and into the harsh life of the Ghetto, they made a vow to escape together and survive as a family. The Neiger family is said to be one of the only families to escape and survive as an intake family with small children.
The Kid Officer
IN PRODUCTION
Dear Miriam
IN DEVELOPMENT
When an Austrian Jewish boy named Friederich Biermann watches Hitler’s Anschluss victory parade from his penthouse balcony in Vienna, then gets locked into a dark closet at school by his teacher the next day, his life drastically changes forever. His once respected family, now penniless, escapes Nazi tyranny in Vienna, walking through the night into France, staying in a circus troupe squalid Paris hotel for eight months with little to eat. As the Nazis close in, Fred’s parents scramble for passage from Marseilles to Palestine, sleeping at ship’s bottom among the French Foreign Legion’s horses. Haunted by his recurring nightmare of being thrown from his balcony by Nazis, Fred is traumatized by the upheaval of his childhood. Disembarking into the exotic, desert land of Palestine, the boy feels an incredible rush of freedom. Dreams of a free life are suddenly dashed, as Fred watches the British, under the Mandate, turn away ship after ship of desperate, Jewish Holocaust refugees. He is devastated by what he sees. Fred makes a courageous decision to take action, which alters the course of his life, and history forever.