A new documentary from filmmaker Ken Burns is being broadcast this week on PBS. It is a different window into the Holocaust, with a focus on the response here in the United States. Burns is calling it the most important film he’s ever made. You can watch the full 3-part miniseries, The U.S. and the Holocaust, on Sunday from 11am-6pm on Mountain Lake PBS. Learn more: https://mountainlake.org/the-u-s-and-…
The Ken Burns documentary follows on the heels of the documentary produced by two local filmmakers who followed a Holocaust Survivor from here in the North Country to the world’s most notorious concentration camp at Auschwitz. Vladimir Munk, a retired SUNY Plattsburgh professor, joined more than 100 other survivors for a memorial ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Death Camp in January 2020. Munk traveled to Poland with his friend Julie Canepa, a writer who lives in Plattsburgh, and two filmmakers, Paul Frederick and Bruce Carlin, who produced a documentary on his trip back to Auschwitz.
Watch more of our interview with filmmakers Paul Frederick and Bruce Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcO_0…
Watch interview with Vladimir Munk & Julie Canepa from September 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kqAQ…
Watch Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk on Sunday, 6pm, on Mountain Lake PBS.