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American Documentary "My Grangfather's House"

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American Documentary
Products Name"My Grangfather's House"
Production CountryAmerica
Theme Typefamily,history
Episode Volume1
Episode Length72 min
Film DirectorRon Steinman
Dialogue LanguageEnglish
Title LanguageEnglish
Completed Date2004

My Grandfather's House , a personal documentary, follows filmmaker Eileen Douglas's determined search to find her grandfather's house in Lithuania , the home he lived in and left behind in 1911 when he fled, at 16, from Kovno to America to escape the Tsar's Army. Four decades after his death, with only fragments to guide the way, the documentary is Douglas 's attempt to lift the veil of darkness and discover "where it all began." Traveling from New York City, to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, to her mother's attic in Syracuse, to the homes of relatives and, finally, to the block in Kovno where her grandfather once lived, along the way she unexpectedly unlocks the mystery of stories he never told, discovers the fate of family members lost in the war, learns of the glory that once was Lithuanian Jewry, finds living relatives missing for years in Siberia, and resurrects a family shattered by the traumas of the 20th Century.

The documentary weaves together original footage, old family photographs, archival records, translations of old Yiddish letters, archival film footage, family reminiscences, interviews, conversations, and music scored to evoke a vanished era.

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