Steven Besserman shares his ailing mother’s Holocaust memories in award winning documentary.
“A17855: This became my only identity. This was Auschwitz,” Aranka Besserman says in the film tribute to her memories
of the Holocaust that her son Steven Besserman directed.
Only a Number premiered at the Garden State Film Festival in March and won the Best Feature Documentary prize in a field of about 100 documentaries at the Jersey Shore Film Festival last week.
“This is where my mother lost her mother. This is where she lost all human dignity. This is where she became only a number,” Steven says as he narrates her story from the fairytale-like places where it unfolded.
Hers is an unlikely story of finding lasting love amidst unspeakable evil. …
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