Mel Brooks
Bea Cohen
Harry Corre
Lester Tanner
Max Fuchs
Carl Reiner
Harold Baumgarten
Robert M. Morgenthau
We have filmed more than forty veterans, including
directors Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner; former Manhattan D.A. Robert M. Morgenthau; Bea Cohen, a 104 year-old former WAAC; Harry Corre, a POW and survivor of the Bataan Death March; Lester Tanner, a POW, was nearly segregated as a Jew, but was rescued by his non-Jewish commanding officer; Max Fuchs, the cantor at the 1944 service in Germany broadcast on NBC; Harold
Baumgarten, who stormed the Normandy beaches on
D-Day with a Jewish star and “Bronx, NY” painted on
his uniform; and artist Si Lewen, a Polish emigre who
enlisted in the service and was among the first soldiers
at Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation.
Our original interviews will be interwoven with pre-
recorded testimonies available in archival collections—including columnist Art Buchwald; baseball star Hank Greenberg; former New York City mayor Ed Koch;
writers Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger
and Herman Wouk; Rabbi Judah Nadich, the Senior Jewish Chaplain in Europe; actor Eli Wallach, historian
Raul Hilberg, and many more.
Si Lewen