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by Heidi Schmidt Emberling
More than 55 years after the end of World War II, Germans and Jews still
struggle with the difficult legacies of war. Filmmaker Heidi Schmidt
Emberling confronts her German father and Jewish mother about the
devastating secrets and painful silence about the past as she struggles to
reconcile her dual identity as both a German and a Jew.
Through intimate interviews with both her Jewish relatives in America and
her German Lutheran relatives abroad, she discovers a rich family tapestry
spanning three continents, shaped by war, courage, prejudice, and fear.
Tangled Roots gives a personal voice to a rarely-heard minority, a
generation of German children branded forever by their parent's actions
during the war. The film also gives an original voice to the countless
Jewish friends and family changed forever by the horrors of the Holocaust.
Because there are few films that explore the lives of the first generation
of Germans to grow up in the aftermath of World War II in Germany, Tangled
Roots becomes a critical work in the ongoing dialogue between the Jewish and
German communities.
Appropriate for:
Middle School•High School•College/University
66 minutes • VHS
ORDER CODE: ND538V
VIDEO
ORDER CODE: ND538DVD
DVD
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