Family Treasures Lost & Found — One Woman’s Search for Answers

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

On this Mother’s Day film-and-discussion program we present Family Treasures Lost & Found — exploring the quest of journalist Karen Frenkel to learn the stories that remained untold about her mother’s Holocaust survival experience. 

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VIEW THE TRAILER

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THE SCHEDULE

⇒ May 9-23, watch the film Family Treasures Lost and Found on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, May 11 at 4:00 p.m. US Eastern Time, tune into the program with our distinguished panel of speakers. A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE SPEAKERS

Karen A. Frenkel, right, is an award-winning journalist, author, and documentary producer whose story is told in Family Treasures Lost & Found. She blogs for The Times of Israel about her parents’ World War II survival experiences, fascism, and political parallels today. Her previous award-winning documentaries include Minerva’s Machine: Women and Computing and Net.LEARNING, both of which aired on public television.Her articles have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Discover, Essence, Forbes, Scientific American and The New York Times among others. She co-authored with Isaac Asimov the book Robots: Machines in Man’s Image.

Marcia Rock, left, is a documentary filmmaker whose films cover international dilemmas, women’s issues and personal perspectives. Aside from Family Treasures Lost & Found, her other award-winning films include UnReined, about an Israeli equestrian champion who built the first Palestinian equestrian team, SERVICE: When Women Come Marching Home, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories and Dancing with My Father. She founded and directs the News and Documentary program at the NYU Carter Journalism Institute and co-authored with Marlene Sanders Waiting for Primetime: The Women of Television News.

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Registration for this program will open at a later date.