Like Father, Like Daughter (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:22:21
Jane Wells, discusses her experience as a producer of the film, The Devil Came on Horseback, and that of her father, Sidney Bernstein, who documented the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of WWII.
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Piece Description
Jane Wells, discusses her experience as a producer of the film, The Devil Came on Horseback, and that of her father, Sidney Bernstein, who documented the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of WWII.
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on September 13, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
SEPTEMBER 13, 2007, LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
JERRY FOWLER: Okay. My guest today is Jane Wells. She is a producer of the documentary, The Devil Came on Horseback, which is about the experience in Darfur of former U.S. Marine Brian Steidle who was our guest last week. Jane is also the daughter of Sidney Bernstein, a movie producer himself who was with allied forces at the end of World War II when Nazi concentration camps were liberated and the full scope of the Holocaust was discovered. He produced a film about the camps, and some of his footage is part of the permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Museum today. Jane, welcome to the program.
JANE WELLS: Thank you. It is a pleasure to be here.
JERRY FOWLER: Well, Jane, I wanted to start with your father?s story. How was it that he came to be with the Allied Forces?
JANE WELLS: Well, he had been working in the film divisio...
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