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In 1945, cinema luminary Sidney Bernstein became one of the first people to witness the atrocities inflicted by the Nazis. He arrived to Bergen Belsen in April 1945 and began work on a documentary titled German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. Tape for the film was cut. The story arc was constructed. Maps for the film were drawn. Sidney even brought his friend filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock onto the project. But, the British government censored the film and the footage was hidden from the public for nearly half a century. In this episode, we explore Sidney’s story through the perspective of his daughter, Jane Wells, who is also a filmmaker and also meet Holocaust survivor Helen Colin (formerly Hela Goldstein) who is likely the first Holocaust survivor to ever give an audio-visual testimony.
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In 1945, cinema luminary Sidney Bernstein became one of the first people to witness the atrocities inflicted by the Nazis. He arrived to Bergen Belsen in April 1945 and began work on a documentary titled German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. Tape for the film was cut. The story arc was constructed. Maps for the film were drawn. Sidney even brought his friend filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock onto the project. But, the British government censored the film and the footage was hidden from the public for nearly half a century. In this episode, we explore Sidney’s story through the perspective of his daughter, Jane Wells, who is also a filmmaker and also meet Holocaust survivor Helen Colin (formerly Hela Goldstein) who is likely the first Holocaust survivor to ever give an audio-visual testimony.