Zuzana Justman
Zuzana Justman (born June 20, 1931 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czechoslovak-American documentary filmmaker and Holocaust survivor .
Life
Zuzana Pick was the second child of Viktor and Marie Pick, her brother was the future author Jiří Robert Pick (1925-1983). The family was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943 . Her father was deported from there to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was murdered.
Zuzana, her brother and her mother survived the ghetto imprisonment in Theresienstadt. After their liberation, they first went back to Prague, where their brother tried to establish himself as a writer, while Zuzana and her mother emigrated to Argentina after the communist coup in 1948 . She left Buenos Aires in 1950 to study at Vassar College in the United States . She later received her PhD in Slavic languages at Columbia University in New York City in 1981 .
She married the writer David Boroff (1917–1965), with whom she has two children. After Boroff's death, she married the psychiatrist Daniel Justman. She worked as a translator. In 1986 she began producing documentaries on topics from recent European history.
In 1987 she interviewed Theresienstadt occupant and diary writer Helga Pollak-Kinsky for the film Terezín Diary . In 1993 she wrote and produced Czech Women: Now We Are Free . In Voices of the Children (1998) she told the story of three Holocaust survivors from Theresienstadt, one of them Pollak-Kinsky. The film received an Emmy Award in 1999 as well as awards at the Chicago International Film Festival , the Chicago International Television Competition and the Film Fest New Haven.
In the film A Trial in Prague Justman (2000) considered the Slánský process 1952 in communist Czechoslovakia. For the interviews she got Heda Margolius Karlovy, widow of Rudolf Margolius , and Eduard Goldstücker among others . Her brother's play Smolař ve žluté čepici from 1982 was staged by her in 2006 under the title The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap at the New York International Fringe Festival .
Movies
- with Dan Weissman: Terezín Diary . 1990
- Czech Women: Now We Are Free . 1993
- Voices of the Children . 1998
- A Trial in Prague . 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Zuzana Justman in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Zuzana Justman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zuzana Justman ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at FringeNYC 2009
- ^ Changes in the word order and the case system of fifteen Czech speakers in the United States , Dissertation, Columbia University, 1981
- ↑ Vincent Canby: Review / Film; Remembering the Horrors of the Nazis 'Model Camp' , New York Times , August 16, 1991
- ^ AO Scott: Loyalty to Communism Rewarded by Execution , NYT, September 14, 2001
- ^ The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap , website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Justman, Zuzana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pick, Susanna (maiden name); Justman, Susan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak-American filmmaker and Holocaust survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague , Czechoslovakia |