{"id":31870,"date":"2019-02-15T03:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T11:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=31870"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:50:00","slug":"fulfilling-her-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/02\/15\/fulfilling-her-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulfilling her promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

A still from \u00c9l\u00e9onore Goldberg\u2019s animated short film My Yiddish Papi<\/em> (Picbois Productions\/NFB).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On Jan. 25, the National Film Board of Canada released \u00c9l\u00e9onore Goldberg\u2019s animated short film My Yiddish Papi<\/em> (Picbois Productions\/NFB). It can be streamed free of charge across Canada on nfb.ca<\/a>, as well as on NFB\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> and Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The online release of the film marked the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which is observed on Jan. 27. With My Yiddish Papi<\/em>, Goldberg has made a personal short film about filial love, duty and the transmission of memory by honouring a promise made long ago: that of illustrating the adventures of her grandfather, a resistance fighter during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Produced by Karine Dubois (Picbois Productions) and Julie Roy (NFB), the film was presented as a world premi\u00e8re at the 2017 Ottawa International Animation Festival, and was also selected for the Sommets du cin\u00e9ma d\u2019animation de Montr\u00e9al and the London International Animation Festival, among others.<\/p>\n

Goldberg is an award-winning Franco-Canadian filmmaker, animator and cartoonist. In My Yiddish Papi<\/em>, using ink-on-paper animation, she relates the story of her grandfather, Georges (Josek) Goldberg, who became a resistance fighter at age 20 during the Second World War. \u201cHe saved many lives and he and his family narrowly escaped Auschwitz,\u201d said Goldberg in an interview on the NFB website. He died, in Paris, in July 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would sometimes share his wartime memories when we dined together during the time I lived in Paris,\u201d Goldberg told the NFB. \u201cHe never bragged; he was a humble, shy person. He would have liked me to make a graphic novel or film about his resistance adventures, and I had committed to doing it. But time passed and I did nothing. At his death, my promise came back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A still from \u00c9l\u00e9onore Goldberg\u2019s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions\/NFB). On Jan. 25, the National Film Board of Canada released \u00c9l\u00e9onore Goldberg\u2019s animated short film My Yiddish Papi (Picbois Productions\/NFB). It can be streamed free of charge across Canada on nfb.ca, as well as on NFB\u2019s YouTube channel and Facebook page. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[8295,8710,53,6968,5933,8711,8676],"class_list":["post-31870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-film","tag-animation","tag-eleonore-goldberg","tag-holocaust","tag-national-film-board","tag-nfb","tag-picbois-productions","tag-remembrance"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}