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  • Lives Lost, Lives Found
  • gig: broadcast, design, documentary, animation
  • client: The Jewish Museum of Maryland
  • directors: Jay Perry, Chris Smith
  • writers: Anita Kassof and Deb Weiner
  • studio: vastu.media
  • completed: January 2007

Short-subject documentary surveying the experience of German Jewish refugees who settled in Baltimore. We interviewed a number of Baltimore’s Holocaust survivors, and intercut their stories with archival photographs, film, and animation to convey not only a visual history of the period, but also the stages of disorientation, loss, and resolution felt in their adoptive home. Hundreds of immigration papers and Reissepass, collected and scanned from the Jewish Museum's traveling exhibition of the same name, were used as a graphic theme throughout the film, to suggest the enormous numbers of refugees trying to gain entry to the U.S. at the time.