Seeing the number tattooed on a woman’s arm who survived Auschwitz made an impression on me I will never forget. That is why I’m alerting people to this special short film airing on HBO tomorrow night at 6. The Number On Great-Grandpop’s Arm tells the story of a 10-year-old boy’s conversation with his great-grandfather about […]
Seeing the number tattooed on a woman’s arm who survived Auschwitz made an impression on me I will never forget.
That is why I’m alerting people to this special short film airing on HBO tomorrow night at 6.
The Number On Great-Grandpop’s Arm tells the story of a 10-year-old boy’s conversation with his great-grandfather about the number tattooed on his arm, a grim reminder of his surviving internment at Auschwitz.
When 10-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather, Jack, about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation about Jack’s life that spans happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz and finding a new life in America.
This gently powerful family documentary centers on Elliott’s love for his beloved great-grandfather and his wish to keep Jack’s memories and lessons from that terrible time alive.
“His story has changed a lot of people,” he says. “You need to know it to understand and stop it from happening in future generations.”
Jack’s story is brought to life through documentary and archival footage and stills.
NOTE: You can read my experience meeting an Auschwitz survivor at a live debate between in New Orleans between Democrat Edwin Edwards and Republican candidate, Ku Klux Klan member and neo-Nazi David Duke, for governor of Louisiana. The election made national headlines.
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