Here Lived…

Jane Wells is an Emmy-award nominated filmmaker, best known for Tricked, a documentary about sex trafficking in the USA, and for the groundbreaking documentary feature The Devil Came on Horseback, about the genocide in Darfur. As the founder of 3 Generations, she has written, produced and directed over 50 short films and videos. Her films have been selected by film festivals including Sundance, AFI/Silverdocs, Hotdocs, Tribeca, Montclair, Nashville, Thessaloniki, Aspen Shorts Fest, Red Nation and The American Indian Film Festival. Her award-winning shorts A System of Justice, Native Silence, Preserving the Holocaust, and most recently A Kaddish For Selim have played widely on the festival circuit.

Alexander Stukenberg, featured in the film Here Lived, manages the Stolpersteine project’s production and coordination in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and delivers public presentations to raise awareness about Stolpersteine. Born in Bad Harzburg, Germany, he has a broad professional background in logistics, project management and global partnerships. After serving in the German Navy he joined the company TNT Express Worldwide, where he managed special services and logistics, including sponsorship coordination for the European and German Film Awards. Today he is proud to be working on the Stolpersteine project full-time. 

Jane Friedman is a long-time journalist with more than eighteen years’ experience as a foreign correspondent. She reported from Paris (for Newsweek), in Jerusalem (for The New York Times) and in Beirut and Cairo (for CNN and The Washington Post). She grew up on Long Island, near New York City, and had no idea she had any relation to the Holocaust because her parents, refugees from Belgium, repressed everything. The discovery, in recent years, has changed her life and her sense of who she is. She continues to write – but mostly now about her encounter with her family’s World War II reality. She recently traveled to Germany for the embedding of four stumbling stones to memorialize relatives who were either persecuted or murdered by the Third Reich, an experience she chronicled in Moment magazine.

Ulrika Grünwald Citron, a daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Amsterdam, was born in Sweden and moved to the US to pursue college. Her story is told in the film, Here Lived. Upon graduating from Temple University, she worked at WNET/Great Performances in New York, followed by Swedish Broadcasting, New York. Ulrika has chaired and co-chaired committees at the USC Shoah Foundation and the United Jewish Appeal of New York. She has pursued involvements in organizations aiming to educate about the Holocaust and genocide. She serves on the Board of Governors of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and supports the Stolpersteine Project in Amsterdam.

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