3 Generations Board and Staff are honored to present the New York City premiere of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
A special champagne reception and fork-dinner will precede the screening of "the forgotten masterpiece of British film-making,"
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Roger Cohen will speak at the reception and moderate the post-screening panel.
For nine years 3 Generations, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, has documented the stories of survivors of human rights abuses through film. Inspired by her father’s documentary German Concentrations Camps Factual Survey and its suppression from 1945 to 1985, founder Jane Wells created 3 Generations to honor Sidney Bernstein’s work and to tell the truth about subsequent genocides.
3 Generations enables survivors of crimes against humanity to record their experiences as an act of healing, a call to action and to create historical evidence. The voice of each witness is amplified by creating broad audiences: film festivals, theatrical and community screenings, partnerships, web-series and educational outreach. Award-winning films include The Devil Came on Horseback, about the genocide in Darfur, Tricked and Native Silence.
We are grateful to the Imperial War Museums and the Museum of Jewish Heritage for partnering with us on this special evening.
Award-winning journalist and author Roger Cohen is one of the most talented, hard-hitting international reporters today. Cohen’s illustrious career has spanned some of the most prestigious news outlets in the nation and abroad, from his positions at The New York Times to his time working for The Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Cohen's most recent book “The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family,” a family memoir was published by Knopf in January 2015.
In addition he has written “Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo,” an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and “Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble.” He also co-wrote a biography of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, “In the Eye of the Storm.”
Professor Stuart Liebman is a leading scholar in French cinema and theory, post-war German cinema and Soviet and East European films. He has served as the Founding Coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center as well as the first Chair of the Department of Media Studies at Queens College.
Prof. Liebman's writing has been published in a variety of scholarly and critical journals both in the United States and abroad. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Prof. Liebman has been awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Presidential Fellowship at Queens in the Spring of 2007, and in 2006 he was named an Academy Film Fellow of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. A Senior Research Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. during the Spring of 2004, Prof. Liebman is currently completing a book on the first decade of Holocaust representation in world cinema.
For the last 20 years David Bernstein has liaised with the Imperial War Museums over his father, Sidney Bernstein’s, war archive and has been instrumental in the restoration of German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. He graduated from Oxford University in 1978 and began his working life in the British Foreign Office, before qualifying as a lawyer.
Mr. Bernstein currently sits on the boards of a number of charitable organizations, and of two grant giving foundations. He is a board member of The New Israel Fund (UK) and is a member of Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa Advisory Council. His areas of interest are the Middle East, penal affairs, refugee issues, and alcohol and drug addiction.
Jane Wells is an Emmy-award nominated filmmaker, journalist and Founder and Executive Director of 3 Generations, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to exposing crimes against humanity by documenting survivors’ stories on film. She is best known for producing the award-winning documentary The Devil Came on Horseback about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and most recently the feature documentary Tricked which characterizes sex trafficking here in the United States as a human rights abuse.
