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I Am A Traister: The Sarah Moskovitz Story is an animated film made by teens that tells the story of an unsung hero now in her 90s. In 1980s Los Angeles, Sarah Traister Moskowitz and her colleague Flo Kinsler founded the first Child Survivors of the Holocaust therapy and support group which went on to be a worldwide phenomenon. For the first time this generation of child survivors, then in their 40s and 50s, could name their experience, find community and begin to heal. Now in their 80s and 90s, these survivors consider themselves to be "phantom siblings" with Sarah as their "mother." The film was created by teens who worked with an artist mentor over Zoom, using their phones as cameras and cardboard boxes as animation stands. It is a production of The Righteous Conversations Project, a collaboration of Holocaust survivors and teens, based in Los Angeles and now in its tenth year.
A film by Alexa Biggs, Veronica Howard, Izadora Kashper, Ella Levkowitz, Asher Meron, Bella Rahi, Henry Ullendorff, Olivia Uzielli, Lincoln Weinstock
Artist Mentor Lynn Tomlinson
Survivor Mentors Ruth Birndorf, Eva Brettler, Lidia Budgor, Peter Daniels, Harry Davids, Lya Frank, Natalie Gold, Armin Goldstein, Joshua Kaufman, Marie Kaufman, David Lenga, Curt Lowens z”l, Leon Malmed, Ella Mandel, Daisy Miller, Ella Mandel, Eva Nathanson, Henry Oster z”l, Lea Radziner, Michele Rodri, Elly Rubin, Lillian Trilling, Johanna Saper, Henry Slucki, David Wiener
Additional drawings and animation Spirit Avedon, Kate Balsley, Natasha Clement, Alexa Druyanoff, Ella Moriarty, Gracie Sandman, Hank Schoen
With gratitude to Susan Carr, C. Lily Ericsson, The Feiler Family Foundation, Mitchell McDonough, Jim Patterson, Sharyn Ross, David Suissa, Nell Teare
Interns Robert Carlson, Serra Demirci, Charlie Nevins, Dora Schoenberg, Eva Suissa
Camera Julia Swain, Production Sound Kim Kylland, Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixer Jeremy Grody, Sound Logic Post
Executive Producers Cheri Gaulke, Samara Hutman
A Production of The Righteous Conversations Project, a program of Remember Us, and Harvard-Westlake Summer Film
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