An animated film featuring the testimony of members of the Leeds-based Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association has picked up two prizes at the Royal Television Society Awards Yorkshire event.
The association worked with Fettle Animation on a film commissioned for the BBC Learning Zone for schools. It was recognised in the best animation and visual effects and "made in Yorkshire" categories.
HSFA chair Lilian Black said she had been sceptical "about animating the Shoah. But I was amazed at the results, which have been acclaimed worldwide. It is bringing the Holocaust to young people in new and innovative ways." Ms Black paid tribute to the Fettle Animation team for a "sensitive and accurate" portrayal of the survivors' stories.
One of the survivors, Trude Silman, said: "One and a half million innocent children were killed during the Holocaust. Why should innocent people, just because they were Jewish, be killed for no reason at all?"
Martin Kapel, Ruth Rogoff, Arek Hersh, Heinz Skyte and Suzanne Rappaport-Ripton also discussed the impact of their Shoah experiences on their later lives during short, follow-on interviews to camera.
