“Draw what you see,” Helga Hoskava’s father told her 70 years ago before they were separated in the Jewish concentration camp, Theresienstadt. Now a renowned Czech painter, Helga passed on the passion born from her father’s words to her son and then her granddaughter—celebrated cellist Dominika Hoskava. Despite coming from a long line of secular artists and a non-Jewish mother, Dominika surprises her family by converting to Judaism and moving to Israel in an effort to reconnect with her heritage.
Holocaust survivor and renowned Czech painter Helga Hošková-Weissová shares the passion of her family’s creative legacy and speaks to the responsibility of survivors to tell the story of the Shoah to forth coming generations before they fade away.
Filmed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2010
Director: Liron Unreich
Director of Photography: Liron Unreich and Martin Preiss
Sound: Masha Volynsky, Martin Preiss
Produced for The Ripple Project by: Michael McDevitt and Marika Jaksova
Music: David Popper's "Fantasy on Little Russian Theme for Cello and Orchestra"
Performed by cellist: Dominika Hošková
Performance Video: Celldomi
© 2010 The Ripple Project
