Newsday: LI Filmmaker Tyler Gildin's Work is a Thank You Note to his Grandfather, a Holocaust Survivor

Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, was quoted in a Newsday article from May 21 about a movie by a Long Island Filmmaker about his grandfather, a Holocaust Survivor:

Brevity doesn't allow much of a deeper exploration of the questions that may occur to viewers. For example, how unique was the Gildin story? "It wasn't unusual but it was lucky because tragically thousands [of children] didn't leave," says Thorin Tritter, programming director for the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove. 

Tritter says that HIAS helped about 30,000 German Jewish refugees get to New York from about 1934 to 1946. "We know if you were a survivor and came to the city, there's a good chance you'd settle out here and start raising your family. But as to exact numbers on Long Island, we don't know."

The full article can be found here: LI Filmmaker Tyler Gildin’s Work is a Thank You Note to his Grandfather, a Holocaust Survivor.