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"I was embarrassed that I knew so little about this aspect of the story, and I read it like a thriller with treasure and heroes," [Bonni Cohen] remembers. "I did fairly immediately connect to it on a Jewish level."
Cohen met her co-producers in Stanford University's renowned graduate documentary film program, where her student projects included "Past the Gate," an oral history piece with Linda Breder, and "Meet Me in Miami Beach," about the demise of Yiddish culture."It was a big struggle to not draw any parallels to equalize all the death and the suffering with the loss of cultural property," Cohen explains. "[But] one was part of the other. I got to this level of understanding of just how evil and calculated this idea of eradication was."See the full content of this document
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Culture Vultures
Bonni Cohen devoured Lynn H. Nicholas' The Rape of Europa, the book detailing the looting and destruction of Europe's art collections by the Nazis, as an untold history of the Holocaust.
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