| Dear Marsha, Exciting News! We have just received an official request from Ronald Coleman, reference librarian for the United States Holocaust Museum In Washington, DC for copies of our Holocaust documentaries. Your work is now going to Washington, DC where it will be available to scholars, researchers, and students from around the world. A copy of my response is below. Congratulations! Richard Lester, Executive Producer Blue Heron International Pictures Dear Mr. Coleman, I am delighted to be able to send you two copies of each of our three documentaries related to World War II. Eyewitness To History features Armin Lehmann's account of the last days of the Nazi regime from his unique viewpoint as a Hitler Youth in the Berlin bunker as Hitler's last courier. His book, In Hitler's Bunker, offers much additional detail to his story. Remarkably, at 16 years old, when told by the Americans of the Holocaust, he made a solemn commitment which he honored until his dying day. He became a peacemanker and advocate of tolerance and understanding, telling new generations of the consequences of hatred and intolerance. We also produced a slide show/lecture version of the film at Armin's request, which he could send to schools and colleges requesting a lecture during the stage of his life when he was unable to leave his home due to health. I have included two copies of the lecture version, which contains more material than the documentary film. I have also sent two copies of Deliver Us From Evil and Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo. Holocaust survivor Claire Soria's story streams free on www.imdb.com (search Deliver Us From Evil 2008). We learned recently that her mother was on the twentieth transport train from Brussels to Auschwitz -- the only transport ambushed by Jewish resistance fighters. Asia Doliner, who appears in both films, recently passed away. However, the curator at the Ravensbruecke concentration camp museum, was able to locate her name and data on one of the few surviving documents that the SS did not burn. It had slight discrepancies of name and birthdate, as she was arrested as a Pole, not a Jew. She successfully passed herself off as a Christian throughout the war, and survived both Flossenburg and Ravensbrueke because of this deception. Both Deliver Us From Evil and Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo are scheduled for broadcast on Channel 10 in Israel on April 21 -- Yom Lashoah Day, the first at 11 AM, the second at 3:35 PM. Channel 10 added Hebrew subtitles to both films. You might contact Keren Kielmanowitcz Freilich at Israel's Channel 10 network if interested in VHS copies with Hebrew subtitles. I will also put our producer in Israel, Alex Ringer, in touch with you. He has extensive video interview footage of Moshe Tirosh, who hid at the zoo as a child named Miecio Kenigswain. If you would find them helpful, we have copies of the Safe Haven script in both English and Polish. Thanks to Feliks Pastusiak, our producer in Warsaw, Ryszard and Teresa Zabinski offered extensive guidance in getting the story historically correct. Please let me know if these would be useful. Your package will go out via U.S. mail tomorrow. On behalf of everyone involved with making these films, please accept my thanks and appreciation for making them available to students and researchers. We have adopted the motto you may have seen in Colonial Williamsburg --"That the future may learn from the past." All the best, Richard Lester, Executive Producer Blue Heron International Pictures |