PJFM In Conversation
Roberta Grossman, Director of RECKONINGS
42nd Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
Katie Lowe, Program and Directions Collector of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (HAMEC), chats with Roberta Grossman, Director of RECKONINGS, to talk about her new film.
RECKONINGS is another outstanding addition to the documentarian’s collection. This riveting docudrama explores the years immediately after the liberation of the camps and the issue of ordering reparations to survivors of the Shoah. The decision to compensate survivors was both supported and frowned upon by leaders and citizens, both German and Jewish alike. Could something of this unprecedented a scale be achievable?