Here Lived
Here Lived is a short (25 minute) film which follows the late, German Jewish Petzal Family. Beginning with the laying of Stolpersteine, memorial ‘stumbling’ stones for the dead, it retraces their lives from a modest apartment in central Berlin, to exile in Holland, betrayal and deportation to the Dutch Kamp Westerbork, two years in Westerbork including the birth of twins, a further deportation for eight months to Theresienstadt and finally deportation to their deaths in Auschwitz. An excursion into history, memory and acts of reconciliation and reparation, ‘Here Lived ‘is an unsentimental exploration of second-generation experience, using historical photos, archive, contemporary film, photography and music. A second version of this film with additional footage is being prepared.
