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Through inventive research, a journalist investigates her parents’ unspoken Holocaust stories, and provides historical context in this compelling five-part series

Family Treasures Lost and Found

Name: Family Treasures Lost and Found
Brand: Through inventive research, a journalist investigates her parents’ unspoken Holocaust stories, and provides historical context in this compelling five-part series
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PREMIERE - Miami Jewish Film Festival | **"Her exploration of the past is engaging. Family Treasures is truly a treasure." - Rabbi Michael Berenbaum**

Eugenics and Phrenology • Antisemitism • World War II • Oral History • Genealogy and Family History • Holocaust Survivors • Investigative Journalism

Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 83 minutes (75 minutes feature length version available upon request) | Language: English with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript & Discussion Guide (Available upon purchase) | Director: Marcia Rock | Producer: Karen A. Frenkel

Journalist Karen A. Frenkel investigates her relatives’ unspoken stories of survival and the extremely unlikely odds of escaping the Nazis. FAMILY TREASURES is her detective story; an intergenerational sleuthing adventure using journalistic research techniques to fill gaps in her family’s unspoken wartime tales. This documentary series is more than a personal story, though; with Karen’s family as a model, it provides historical and cultural context to her parents’ and sole-surviving grandfather’s unusual plights. They were not interned in concentration camps and survived through cunning and luck, which underscores their renewed relevance to displaced persons today. Karen's astonishing revelations document her family’s travails while enslaved or hounded throughout Europe, Cuba, Mexico, and to New York and Palestine. They illuminate the hidden truths surrounding tragic losses. FAMILY TREASURES also covers the pre-war culture of assimilated Polish Jews, antisemitism, key moments in WWII, resistance to fascism, altruism, serendipity, and great loss. Ultimately, Karen solves many mysteries, honors her parents and the lost, and finds a deep sense of connection to those she never met. This five-part series Discussion Guide navigates teachers through steps in family history research: 1. Oral History; 2. Google Anything; 3. Sleuthing Archives; 4. Value of Visiting; and 5. Family Tree.

American Jewish University | Rabbi Michael Berenbaum - Holocaust educator, Historian, Museum Curator, Rabbi and Author, Founding Curator of the USHMM, Professor of Jewish Studies and the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute
"Karen A. Frenkel has unlocked her family treasures, once brought home in plastic bags, to tell the story of her parents’ and grandparents’ ordeals during the Holocaust. Her research was prodigious, her work indefatigable, and her courage admirable. As we follow their stories, the history of the Shoah unfolds, the world before, the diverse ways in which these Jews faced their fate and made life and death choices––even choiceless choices––how they dealt with the legacy of their struggle––some in silence, and some in words. As the child of survivors, Frenkel uncovers her past but the story she tells is not just personal for we begin to feel that her family could be ours. Her exploration of the past is engaging. Family Treasures is truly a treasure.”

New Jersey Education Association NJEA | Dr. Kim Pinkney, Associate Director - Consortium Coordinator PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL ISSUES
“The NJEA Consortium is steadfast in its commitment to supporting educators in fostering a socially conscious and just society. It ensures this vital work with resources and professional development needed to empower students to become empathetic, engaged global citizens. The five-part docuseries, Family Treasures Lost and Found, is a perfect example of a tool that can be used in high school and junior high school educational settings to bring studies of the Holocaust to life."

Jewish Press Review
“Family Treasures Lost and Found is a visually stunning film, largely because producer Karen A. Frenkel inherited a formidable family archive of art and photos from her mother’s refugee grandparents, who escaped Berlin in 1941."

New York University | Avinoam J. Patt, Ph.D. - Maurice and Corinne Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Ingeborg H. and Ira Leon Rennert Director, NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism
"Family Treasures Lost and Found can serve as an excellent resource for Holocaust educators, modeling key skills such as critical inquiry, archival research, and the analysis of survivor testimony essential for effective instruction. Students and teachers will be introduced to fascinating aspects of Holocaust history as they follow Karen Frenkel's quest to learn her family history and by extension the broader history of Jewish life in Europe before, during, and after World War II. The discussion guide and appendix offer helpful resources designed to provide educators with the necessary tools to effectively teach this complex history."

FESTIVALS
Miami Jewish Film Festival

SCREENINGS
Dorot screening followed by a Q&A with Karen
June 12, 2025, 3:30 – 6 pm, NYC.
“Dorot” means “generations” in Hebrew, and is a nonprofit organization addressing the challenges of an aging population.

Brevard Jewish Center, Ken Wallston Lecture
June 1, 2025, 4:30 pm, Brevard, NC.

Congregation Beth Israel
May 18, 2025, 7:30 pm, Carmel, CA.

Sousa Mendes Foundation virtual screening & Zoom Q&A
May 11, 2025, 4 pm (Mother's Day)

Congregation Beth Elohim
April 23, 2025, 6:30 pm, Park Slope, NY.
Yom HaShoah screening and book signing

Manhattan University
October 7, 2025, 7 pm

St. Elizabeth University
November 11, 2025, 7pm
Q&A moderated by Richard Quinlan, Professor of History

Kean University
November 12, 2025, 4:30 pm

Holocaust Museum Houston
November 21, 2025, 6:30 pm

Holocaust Museum Los Angeles
November 24, 2025, 2 pm

JCC of Greater Baltimore
December 18, 2024, 11 am

International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies (IAJGS) Annual Conference
August 22, 2024

Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Durban Holocaust Centre, Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre
September 19, 2024, all in South Africa.
Review of South African event

New York University
March 7, 2024, New York, NY.
Introduction by NYU President, Linda Mills, Panel and Q&A with Karen A. Frenkel, Marcia Rock, Avinoam Patt, Director of NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism, and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life.

Center for Jewish History (NY Premiere)
NYC Public premiere at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Teaching the Holocaust through Film
April 21, 2025, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
A three-panel webinar event co-sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism
CTLE credit

New Jersey Education Association, Consortium Transform Conference
April 5, 2025, Princeton, NJ.

Kean University Seminar for Holocaust educators
November 12, 2024

Interview with Karen by her alma mater Hampshire College

Family Treasures Lost and Found

PREMIERE - Miami Jewish Film Festival | "Her exploration of the past is engaging. Family Treasures is truly a treasure." - Rabbi Michael Berenbaum

PREMIERE - Miami Jewish Film Festival | **"Her exploration of the past is engaging. Family Treasures is truly a treasure." - Rabbi Michael Berenbaum**