The Documentary project was one of the most interesting school projects I have ever done. It pushed me out of my comfort zone and allowed me to become more attuned to talking to other people I do not know. I did my entire project on an Auschwitz survivor and her life in the camps and living in america after the war ended. I learned tons of new information on not just life in the concentration camps but what it was like after they were liberated and life with the experience from the camps. I hope you can learn something new here aswell and respect what people went through and help prevent it from happening ever again.
Down below is an intro video to my main interveiwee Sally Reacht
This video was made in Adobe After Effects, I found this process quite fun to turn into a cool, quick introduction to Sally Reacht. Some of the process can be seen in the screenshot of after effects bellow.
The Magazine was by far my favorite part of the entire project. It took all of the skills wee learnd over the year and put them to the test. With my covor page I wanted to make barb wire entraping the Star of David, one of the Jewish religous symboles, wich all of them where forced by the Nazis to ware as an arm band marking them for death. Most of my time during the documentary project was spent trying to perfect the magazine but mine still didn't make the publication list to be printed. If you want to see my magazine clik the image to the left.
Sally Recht is 90 years old and lives in Mountain View California, she was my main interviewee for my documentary project. She was born in Poland in 1926 to a jewish family that owned a tailor shop. She was at school when the invasion of Poland occurred and recalls “the sky being black with planes and falling bombs.” Her family was forced to stay at there home that was now a ghetto and stayed there till she was taken to a concentration came in 1942, she eventually ended up as Auschwitz one of the worst concentration camps of WW ll. Sally was liberated in 1944 no what they called was a death march, she with her three remaining sisters tried to go back to their home which was now occupied by polish people. She went to school in Germany to become a dental assistant and in 1950 she came on a boat (where she met her husband) to america and ended up in the bay area. She now enjoys life and going on walks and telling more people her story.
Rowena is Sally’s caregiver and has been with her since 2012. She is originally from the Philippines and came to the US and became a caregiver she was originally working in Fresno when she got requested for a job here in the bay area to work with Sally’s husband Harry. She took the risk and took the job here and has worked with her ever since then though until last September she was working with Harry when he sadly passed away. “I’m from the Philippines, but we don't but they don't really teach us the whole history about hitler,” Is what Renni says. Before coming to Sally's house she didn’t even know what the holocaust was, She goes on walks every day with Sally for 4 hours and Sally tells her stories of her experiences.