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A Living Archive: What's Your Story?
We invite you to share your thoughts and comments on Auf Wiedersehen, 'Til We Meet Again. What struck you about the film? What moved you? Has someone in your family or circle had similar experiences? Have you tried to trace documents to tell a story like this one? How did you find them? How did you use their records to tell your story?
We view our film as a family story, set in a whole series of contexts, shaped, always, by the formative trauma of escape, rebuilding and reconstruction. Without access to the Jewish Community archive in Vienna, for example, my son would never have had the experience of seeing all the boxes of papers that contained the lives and deaths of thousands of Vienna's Jews, including his great grandfather's.
But archives are living, growing organisms. For example, we haven't been able to find a photograph of Wilhelm Reisz, the Jewish Community researcher who played such an instrumental part in Grandfather Naftali's experience - and that of hundreds of other Viennese Jews. Adding the photograph would answer one question for us, and perhaps open up a whole new story for others.
The making of this movie was also special because we met people in Vienna who were building a different Austria - one where the Holocaust will never happen again. They inspired us. We seek dialogue that crosses boundaries between those with histories of victimization and perpetration.
Help us build our collective memory and story-telling archives by telling us YOUR story! Email us at cvr.info@nyu.edu and we will post your responses below.
We view our film as a family story, set in a whole series of contexts, shaped, always, by the formative trauma of escape, rebuilding and reconstruction. Without access to the Jewish Community archive in Vienna, for example, my son would never have had the experience of seeing all the boxes of papers that contained the lives and deaths of thousands of Vienna's Jews, including his great grandfather's.
But archives are living, growing organisms. For example, we haven't been able to find a photograph of Wilhelm Reisz, the Jewish Community researcher who played such an instrumental part in Grandfather Naftali's experience - and that of hundreds of other Viennese Jews. Adding the photograph would answer one question for us, and perhaps open up a whole new story for others.
The making of this movie was also special because we met people in Vienna who were building a different Austria - one where the Holocaust will never happen again. They inspired us. We seek dialogue that crosses boundaries between those with histories of victimization and perpetration.
Help us build our collective memory and story-telling archives by telling us YOUR story! Email us at cvr.info@nyu.edu and we will post your responses below.