Broadcast journalist Rich Newberg reflects on his coverage of Holocaust survivors who settled in Western New York. The video, which was presented on March 18, 2001 at the Day of Remembrance (Yom HaShoah) commemoration organized on behalf of Buffalo's Jewish community. The video includes a survivor delegation from Buffalo attending the 1983 American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Washington, D.C. The video also features excerpts from two of Mr. Newberg's groundbreaking documentaries, "Survivors of the Holocaust" (1983) and "Lost Childhood: The Story of the Birkenau Boys," (1995). The first piece introduced Buffalo to its survivor community and a newly created Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo. "Lost Childhood..." revealed the story of 89 Jewish boys transported to the concentration camp Aushwitz-Birkenau with their families during World War II. The boys survived a "selection" by the Angel of Death Dr. Joseph Mengele. Now, as men in the sixties, a group of the "Birkenau Boys" returned to the concentration camp where the ashes of their loved ones are buried, to confront their lost childhood.
