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launch flix Options An Unbroken Chain
Stephanie Silverman Houser principle of Los
Angeles and Phoenix and based launch flix, attends NATPE with several new
projects in development. Headling the projects is An Unbroken Chain, My Journey
through the Nazi Holocaust (© 2000, Lerner) by Henry A. Oertelt, based on his
award-winning book. Launch flix recently finalized an option agreement with
Lerner Publishing Group for a feature film based on his the life story. A
Holocaust survivor, Oertelt, was born in Berlin and just 12 years old when
Hitler came to power in 1933. Commenting on the book to be developed into a
feature film Oertelt said, “I am grateful to have had the opportunity to speak
to audiences for the past 40 years to share my message of tolerance and hope,
This movie will enlighten new generations and help insure that the horrors I and
others lived through will not be repeated.” On November 9, 1938, as a teenager,
Oertelt witnessed first-hand the devastation of Kristallnacht, “the night of
broken glass,” with his mother and brother. On that night, Hitler systematically
unleashed a night of unparalleled destruction which many consider to be the
start of the Holocaust. Hitler’s brown shirted storm troopers burned and
demolished countless Jewish businesses, homes and temples, (including Oertelt’s
neighborhood synagogue), and began rounding up and transporting the first 30,000
of what would become six million Jews to concentration camps. In An Unbroken
Chain, Oertelt examines what he calls 18 separate but equally crucial “links” in
the chain of events that kept him alive and ultimately led to his freedom. From
the Nazi foreman who helped him escape the Gestapo, to the SS General who gave
him the medical treatment he needed, Oertelt retraces the encounters and
situations that changed his destiny. Although often sad and shocking, the
remarkable events of Henry’s life, as well as his amazing strength and hope will
touch the lives and hearts of movie goers everywhere.
Eighty-eight year old Holocaust
survivor Henry Oertelt was liberated by General Patton’s Third Army during the
Flossenburg Death March in April, 1945. He arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota in
1949 and has spent 40 years lecturing about his experiences and the importance
of tolerance, political involvement, and confronting hatred. Oertelt is a member
of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s (JCRC) Holocaust Education
Commission, a recipient of JCRC’s Volunteer of the Year award, as well as
recipient of the distinguished Eleven Who Care honor from KARE 11-TV in
Minnesota. On April 23, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota, honored him with the key to
the city and proclaimed Henry A. Oertelt Day. Oertelt is additionally a
recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees from St. Cloud State University and
SouthWest Minnesota State University.
About launch flix
launch flix is a production company that creates and
produces original content, including films, shorts, and web videos that inform,
entertain and educate diverse audiences. The company focuses on "green"
production, Internet marketing, and profitability to give its partners the
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