Pierre Sauvage documentaries

Samuel Pisar, my first cousin, my mother's nephew, was a major influence in my life.

I had nearly completed work on a documentary tribute to “Mula”—as I knew him—when I was compelled to abandon it, even though his message of hope and reconciliation seemed and still seems especially pressing today. The documentary was going to draw on Leonard Bernstein's powerful Kaddish Symphony, as well as on the new text for it written by his friend Samuel Pisar.

Sam was also Antony Blinken's stepfather, and the former Secretary of State has referred frequently to all that he owes to Sam, a Holocaust survivor, prominent international lawyer, and author (Of Blood and Hope).

I am making available below:
1) thirteen minutes from my abandoned work-in-progress documentary (a password is needed to access);
2) a filmed interview I did with my cousin in 1981;
3) a remarkable filmed interview of Samuel Pisar conducted in French (subtitled) in 2004 (which contains remarkable evocations of my parents, and their role in his “redemption”).

Pierre Sauvage
sauvage@chambon.org

Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar interviewed in 2004, in French (subtitled), by the Paris Mémorial de la Shoah.