Barbara Herbich

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Barbara Kathleen Herbich (* 7. July 1954 in Minneapolis , United States ; † 17th October 2009 in New York City ) was an American documentary film - producer .

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Barbara Herbich, who had Polish roots, dropped out of Bryan High School in 1972 and then studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin . In Strasbourg , Alsace , she continued her studies at the university there. In 1977 she completed her degree in French literature with a Bachelor of Arts here. Barbara Herbich then went to New York, where she obtained a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University .

Due to the Polish origin of her father John Bronislaw Herbich, who fled the country occupied by the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War , Barbara Herbich developed an interest in Eastern Europe from an early age. She has toured Poland several times since the 1970s. She also made two films in the late 1980s, one of which, A Stitch for Time , received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. This 53-minute film told of the creation of the so-called National Peace Quilt, an initiative of several small town women who started their own peace initiative with their special campaign.

When she died at the age of only 55, Barbara Herbich was busy making two films: one was intended to be a documentary about the persecution of Polish priests during the German occupation of Poland , the other one about the Nazi destruction of the Polish intelligentsia during the occupation .

Filmography

  • 1987: A Stitch for Time
  • 1988: USSR Art

Individual proof

  1. Barbara Herbich on ancestry.com

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