Filmmakers
Barbara P. Barnett
Co-Producer/Co-Director
Her first documentary Faces of the
Holocaust was featured on National Public Radio
Barbara P. Barnett, Chevalier
dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, M.A., M.S., Head of
Modern Languages at the Agnes Irwin School, has been interviewing French
Holocaust survivors, members of the Resistance, hidden children,
righteous gentiles and historians since 1993. She was awarded a grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, traveled to France to do
research at the Centre de Documentation Juive contemporaine and
conducted interviews in Paris and the Cévennes. Her first
documentary
Faces of the Holocaust (1995) was featured on
National Public Radio and Free Speech T.V. and won honorable mention at
the Judah Magnus Film Festival in Berkeley, California. The film
chronicles the moving story of Marcel Jabelot, a French Holocaust
survivor. In addition to television broadcasts throughout the country,
this film was screened in Philadelphia, Boston, Nashville, New York
City, Washington D.C, Lyon and Paris, France.
Eileen M. Angelini
Co-Producer/Co-Director
Conducted many workshops
across the U. S. on the teaching of the Holocaust in the classroom
E
ileen M. Angelini,
Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Associate
Professor of French at Canisius College (prior to Canisius College, she
was Director of the Foreign Language Program and Associate Professor of
Foreign Languages at Philadelphia University) has received multiple
research grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, as well the French and Canadian
governments. She attended Susan R. Suleimen’s 1998 NEH Summer
Seminar at Harvard University entitled “War and Memory: Postwar
Representations of the Occupation and World War II in French Literature,
History and Film.” She has interviewed French people who lived
through World War II in both the United States and France and has
conducted many workshops across the United States on the teaching of the
Holocaust in the World Language classroom. Angelini secured a Title VI
grant from the U.S. Department of Education to co-produce/co-direct La
France Divisée under the auspices of the American Association of
Teachers of French.