Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1976 - 5/31/1977

Funding Totals

$16,545.00 (approved)
$16,545.00 (awarded)


The Action

FAIN: GN-10305-76

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Calev Chaim (Project Director: October 1976 to present)

To do research and complete a dramatic script for a 90 minute feature film. The film will be a fictional, but historically authentic, reconstruction of the experience of the victims during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe focusing on the moral dilemmas of the victims and the operation of human values under stress, as seen during an "Action" in a Jewish ghetto in Poland.