As Seen Through These Eyes

Summary

Picasso’s words resonate, “I have always believed that artists should not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.”

The mission of "As Seen Through These Eyes" is to combat prejudice, intolerance and bigotry through a series of moving interviews with these survivor-artists.

Each conversation brings with it the realization that every painting or sketch on a torn scrap of paper is its own Holocaust diary. Their words—and their images—are profoundly moving, communicating horror and hope artistically.

One only needs to absorb the evocative drawing of train tracks leading into the mouth of Death’s head, its victims’ plight compassionately captured by the artist, whose signature reads Simon Wiesenthal. His art, and that of all the other survivor-artists, are documents echoing the message “Never again!”

RATED: PG

Year: 2009
Genre: Documentary
Countries: USA
Languages: English
Subject: Holocaust
Run time: 70 minutes
Format: Beta

Director: Hilary Helstein
Cast: Maya Angelou ( narrator) with Simon Wisenthal, Henry Rosmarin, Karl Stojka, Samuel Bak, Dina Gottiebova Babbitt, Judith Goldstein