News & Events
August 2008
Shooting Begins on Ginz Film
After months of rights negotiations and research, a group of DI faculty recently traveled to Israel to begin principal shooting on the latest Institute film, The Last Flight of Petr Ginz. The film will tell the story of artistic and literary prodigy, Petr Ginz. By 14 he had written five novels and penned a diary about the Nazi occupation of Prague. By 16 he had produced 120 drawings and paintings, edited an underground magazine in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, written numerous short stories and had walked to the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
The crew went to Israel to interview Chava Pressburger, the sister of Petr Ginz, and Jehuda Bacon, one of the last people to see Petr before he died at Auschwitz. 
The team also met with Niv Goldberg, manager of the Holocaust Art Archive and Art Collection Database at Yad Vashem, to review the extensive collection of Petr’s artwork housed at the museum. By all measures it was a highly successful production trip.
The DI crew will travel to Prague in November to shoot some additional interviews and complete its archival work.
