I am a postwar German and have received my Ph.D. at UCLA in the School of Theater, Film and Television. My dissertation entitled "The Shadow of the Object: Mourning and Melancholia in Autobiographical Film and Video about the Holocaust" is a psychoanalytic study of narrative figurations of bereavement bearing testimony to the immense losses the Holocaust has inflicted on victims, their children and generations to come. I invite you to view excerpts of a video I made about my relationship with Fred.

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