Survivors of Genocide

3 Generations has recently completed a short film, Preserving the Holocaust, about a remarkable group of young Polish conservators working at Auschwitz to preserve evidence of the Holocaust ahead of the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation. We went to Auschwitz in Poland to film the camp museum and the preservation efforts the people who work there are undertaking. We hope to be able to enter the film into festivals in the coming months and plan to premiere it on our website later in the year.

Preserving the memory and physical evidence of what happened is necessary because as time passes there are less survivors who can tell the story and fragile documents and artifacts  can disintegrate if not cared for properly. The museum, and others like it, are the foundations for ensuring the permanence of Holocaust remembrance, research, and education.

It is important now more than ever to educate new generations about the Holocaust. Recent polls show some startling facts. Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing , especially among young people. In France, nearly 20% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 said they had never heard of the Holocaust. A recent CNN poll taken across 7 European countries showed that about a third of the 7,000 respondents knew little or nothing about it at all.In the US, 22% of millennials say they haven't heard of the Holocaust. There is also a rise in anti-semitism. The FBI reported a 37% spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2017 compared to the previous year. An EU-commissioned survey in 2017 found that 28% percent of European Jews said they had experienced anti-semitism that year.

There is a need now more that ever to educate people about the Holocaust and genocide. 3 Generations is committed to telling stories of survivors of genocide and preserving knowledge about the Holocaust. Please visit our website to watch other survivor stories and for more information about the release of our new short film, Preserving the Holocaust.