Were the House Still Standing:
Maine Survivors and Liberators Remember the Holocaust


Produced by

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine

2007

 

 

Installation Concept and Project Direction

 

Robert Katz

 

with the support of a Trustee Professorship Award

from the University of Maine at Augusta

 

Sound Design and Project Coordination

 

Douglas Quin

dqmedia

Syracuse, New York

 

Director of Photography and Editor

 

Matt Dibble

Dockyard Media

Oakland, California

 

Computer System Design

 

BBI Engineering, Inc.

San Francisco, California

 

 

We are grateful to the following organizations and individuals who contributed  their expertise and resources to make this installation possible:

 

Portraits of Maine survivors courtesy of

Jack Montgomery

 

Cantorial Soloist

Judy Ribnick

 

Overture from Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss

 

 

 

Narrators in order of appearance

 

Peggy Droz

Julia Jakubowska

Krystyna Budincka

Tadeusz Jakubowicz

Dr. Jacek Lachendro

Ewa Norek

Esther van Peer

Rabbi Hillel Katzir

David A. Douglas

Kirby Wahl

McCrae Wahl

 

Shabbat  prayer  chanted by

Stacey B. Mondschein

 

Consultant

Robert Bernheim Ph.D

 

Research Assistant

Shaina C. Katz

 

Sharon Nichols

Executive Director of the HHRC

 

Members of the Education Committee

chaired by

Winnie McPhedran

 

Harold Hon

Architect

Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott

 

Christopher Roma

Headlight Audio Visual, Inc.

 

Benjamin McDorr

The Signery

 

Professor Bill Moseley

UMA Recording Studio

 

Dubway Studios

New York, NY

 

Transcription Services

Sheila Glusker

Glusker Reporting

 

Elaine Lovejoy

and the family of

Joe Poulin

 

Drawings by Alfred Kantor

by permission of Inga Kantor

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives

 

Dr. Jacek Lachendro and Ewa Norek

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

 

Polish-English Translation

Roman Gula

Przemyslaw Nawrocki

 

"... Any man who causes a single Jewish soul to perish..." from

Quote from My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

 

The Pechman film of Cieszanow, Poland

Provided by

Jerry Drogin

 

Arie and Ida Crown Memorial Foundation

 

 

 

and to the survivors and liberators who have courageously shared

their stories with our community.

 

Julius Ciembroniewicz

Alan Wainberg

Tama Fienberg

Alfred Kantor

Sonia and Kurt Messerschmidt

Charles Rotmil

Rochelle and Jerry Slivka

Judith Isaacson

Gerda Haas

Emil Landau

Manfred Kelman

Walter Ziffer

 

The complete, unedited video testimony of Maine survivors will be available for viewing in the resource room of the Michael Klahr Center.

 

Major funding for this project provided by the

 

Sam L. Cohen Foundation

 

Copyright © 2007 Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine