By Daniel Carolan | Development Associate
3 Generations is delighted to announce that we will be filming a brand new project called Stolepersteine in the first two weeks of November 2022. This film will be a collaboration with Ulrika Citron, grandchild of Holocaust victims, and the Stolpersteine Foundation.
Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, are 10cm² stonescreated by German Artist Gunter Demning. They are the world's largest decentralized monument to the Holocaust. Focusing on the personal stories that each Stolpersteine tells, as well as their creation, this film finds a new way to narrate the story of the Holocaust itself.
Due to the increased demand to pay tribute to Dutch Nazi victims, Demnig has for the first time permitted another organization to fabricate Stolpersteine. We will film the Stichting Stolpersteine (the Dutch Stolpersteine Foundation) led by Alexander Stukenberg and housed in the Goethe Institute as they authenticate, fabricate and lay stones. Gunter Demnig will oversee the laying of stones for Ulrika Citron's family.
Emile Schrijver, Director of the Jewish Cultural Centre in Amsterdam and the head of the National Holocaust Museum, will guide us to his hometown of Haarlem. There we will meet and film Mayor Jos Weinen and author and Stolpersteine expert Judith Uytherlinde and her family. In Haarlem, a town aware of its legacy of collaboration with the Nazis, we will film a modern community brought together to honor those lost to the Holocaust.
The story of the Stolpersteine project has not yet been filmed successfully or told outside of Germany. With our access to leading Holocaust experts in the Netherlands, this film will shine new light on that history. One unique aspect of this story is that the Stolpersteine connect those living in specific buildings today with a tragic history they did not know about: it is a project that animates history. We will film people as they learn the story of those who lived in their homes 77 years ago and others who walk the streets of Amsterdam and Haarlem as they literally stumble upon previously unknown Holocaust history. With the rise of Holocaust denial this film will offer personal testimony and public confirmation of a particular piece of Holocaust history. It will be available for contemporary audiences and future generations.
By Daniel Carolan | Development Associate
By Anais Rivera | Development & Communications Manager
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