Hollywood, Calif. December 15, 2011– Launch flix, a production and digital media company, today announced that the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, has become their new fiscal sponsor for a special Holocaust film project. Read More »

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust has submitted a request to the City of Los Angeles to amend the Museum’s lease to increase weekend operating hours. Approximately 3,000 visitors have come to the Museum on Sundays since opening in October 2010. Sunday is their most popular day of the week. Read More »

The Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival is off to a great start. As you might have heard, we’ve expanded to three locations: Scottsdale, Chandler and Peoria in the West Valley. Saturday night we showed, the comedy, Oh What a Mess, which the trials and tribulations of an interfaith relationship as well as a love story with Orthodox Lesbians. Read More »

My friends and fellow docents, Child Survivor, Michelle Gold and Holocaust Survivor and Speaker, Gabriella Karin are showing their KinderTransports installation publicly today for the first time today at the LA Museum of the Holocaust. Read More »

This week I returned to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. It’s only been a few days since my friend, Holocaust Survivor, Author and Lecturer Henry Oertelt’s death but I wanted to renew my commitment to our film project, now more than ever. Read More »

Today around 9AM Central Time, my friend and mentor, Henry Oertelt, died at age ninety at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Henry had recent cancer treatments and started having increasing complications, weakening and needing more and more help with day-to-day care. Read More »

We wish Henry Oertelt a very happy 90th birthday, today. For four decades he has been sharing his story, An Unbroken Chain, with students and organizations in his community. It is our honor and privilege to adapt his book into a feature film. Mazel Tov! Henry Oertelt is pictured with one of his 3 honorary diplomas, this one from St. Olaf. Read More »

Last night, I attended the fundraiser at the Chandler Center for the Arts in Chandler, Arizona. The mayor of Chandler, Boyd Dunn, opened the event by asking for a moment of silence in regards to the tragic earlier incident of the day in Tucson, where Read More »

As you may know, we have always stated that profits from our film, An Unbroken Chain will be going to create and support a Holocaust museum. We are thrilled to announce that The East Valley Jewish Community Center (JCC) is going to house a much-needed Holocaust & Tolerance museum on their property, which will be the first of it’s kind in Arizona. Read More »

I recently saw Iron Cross at the Museum of Tolerance. It was a powerful film about a Joseph, Polish Holocaust Survivor, Roy Scheider, who returns to Germany to see his son, who has been living there for some time. Read More »

This year on Kristallnacht, the anniversary of the start of the Holocaust, I find myself in the middle of a multi-day workshop put on by the Anti-Defamation League of LA for educators. We have had sessions at the Museum of Tolerance, the new LA Museum of the Holocaust (pictured), and the American Jewish University. Read More »

Henry Oertelt and his brother, Kurt are featured in the video at 2: 35 when it shows a choir in Therenstadt, the first of the 5 camps that Henry escaped from. Good luck to the “Alice the Film” project on this wonderful upcoming docu on 106 year old Holocaust Survivor, Alice Herz Sommer. She still plays the piano every day. Read More »

Producer Stephanie Houser with Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt 11/08I traveled back East and had the opportunity to meet Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt almost two years ago. Kurt, age 95, is Henry Oertelt’s older brother and a significant figure in our upcoming feature film, An Unbroken Chain. Sonja died Monday, October 25, 2010 at age 85. Read More »

November 9 will be the 72nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, which many say was the unofficial start of the Holocaust. My friend, 89 year old Henry Oertelt, was an eye witness. Henry now lives in Minnesota with his wife Inge. Seventeen-year-old Henry was living in Berlin at the time with his older brother, Kurt, (now 95) and his mother, Else. Read More »

I plan to volunteer at the new Holocaust museum in LA and thought our supporters would appreciate this piece from Jonah Lowenfeld of the Jewish Journal. I originally heard about plans for the new museum when I attended the 2008 Annual Dinner commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. Read More »

We are involved with a great program, Films in the Schools, a community outreach program of The Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival, which is in its fourth year.Our trained presenters bring films into public and religious schools to help teach the Holocaust. Read More »

Six Million for Six Million is pleased to be a sponsor of the American Jewish Press Association Conference next week. We will offer a signed copy of An Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust to all attendees. Please stop by our table in the expo hall on Tuesday. Read More »

It is with a heavy heart that I write about my relatively new, but dear friend Steffi Oertelt Samuels, the wonderful daughter of author and Holocaust Survivor, Henry Oertelt. Steffi, (age 62) died yesterday, May 17 in Minnesota after a lifetime of defying the odds. Read More »

We attended the Border Film Festival at Tempe Center for the Arts this past weekend. Thank you to filmmaker and ASU professor Paul Espinoza (pictured) who showed 5 powerful films relating to the Mexican/U.S. border’s history all of which were his own productions. The first film, The Lemon Grove Incident, was filmed 25 years ago. Read More »

Legislative measures spark national outcry and what could be costly boycotts of statePhoenix Business Journal – by Chris CasacchiaIn the past month, Arizona lawmakers have lifted bans on concealed weapons and eliminated gun permits; passed a Read More »