Don’t miss Opening Day of the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival! Names, Not Numbers by WashU alumna Tova Fish Rosenberg (AB’70) will be featured the first day of the festival.
Tova is the the creator and producer of the acclaimed Names, Not Numbers; Intergenerational Holocaust Oral History Film Documentary Project. To date, over 8,000 students have participated in this project together with over 5,000 Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans in the US, Canada, and Israel. Over 650 documentaries have been made and are archived at various Holocaust Centers, University Libraries, and Museums.
This past year, the Epstein Hebrew Academy High School in St. Louis participated in the project and the students created a film that includes the stories of three Holocaust
survivors who came to St. Louis along with a brief history of St. Louis in the 1940s.
Tova, the film’s creator and producer, previously served as the On-Site Director for the WashU Study Abroad Program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for 27 years (1974-2001). At WashU, she was a European History and Jewish Studies Major and was privileged to study under Professor Solon Beinfeld. She attended Hebrew University and studied there under Professor Yehuda Bauer, the world-renowned Holocaust scholar.
Tova and the film’s director, along with several guests, including one of the film’s interviewed Holocaust survivors, Rachel Miller, will make up a 7-person panel hosting a brief talkback after the film.