2009 EVENTS:

Mountain Lake PBS Plattsburgh (Channel 57)
Part IV, Post-War Stories 1945-1952
February 8, 2009

Mountain Lake PBS Plattsburgh (Channel 57)
Part III, Stories of the War Years 1939-1945
January 11, 2009


2008 EVENTS:

Mountain Lake PBS Plattsburgh (Channel 57)
Part I, II and III

MONTREAL PREMIERE
Jewish Public Library, Jewish Book Month
Part IV - Post-War Stories 1945-1952
November 13, 2008
Introduction by Jack Wolofsky

Ashkelon, Israel:
International Jewish Film Festival
Part IV - Post-War Stories 1945-1952
October 30, 2008

2008 AWARDS:
Montreal Jewish Memories - Post-War Stories, 1945-1952 was awarded the 2008 J.I. Segal Award for Film/Video on a Jewish Theme at a public ceremony on November 11, 2008.

Two Sisters, Ebensee DP Camp

Montreal Jewish Memories is a series of four films which recreates the life of Montreal's Jewish community - from the early immigrant years, through the Depression and World War II, to the Post-War period. Laughter, tears and - above all - vitality.

Max Beer:
I came from a DP camp in Germany. My parents were survivors from Poland. And, after the war they came here (Montreal)... I was watched all the time. They never let me ride a bicycle. They never let me go too far from the house. I just thought my parents were weird. I was a kid. I wanted be like everybody else.

Deena Dlucy-Apel:
Max’s mother had handed a baby (Max’s brother) to her father, and never saw the baby or her father again. Max didn’t know this all the time that he was...

Max Beer:
…She never told me about the fact that she had had a family before the war.

Excerpt from "Post War Stories, 1945-1952"

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