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On the Internet, Class of 1962: Pierre SauvageFROM: Chambon Foundation.orgDocumentary filmmaker Pierre Sauvage, a child survivor of the Holocaust and a child of Holocaust survivors, is an Emmy Award-winning independent producer. He founded the Chambon Foundation (formerly Friends of Le Chambon) in 1982; it is a nonprofit educational foundation committed to exploring and communicating the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust’s unavoidable lessons of despair. Sauvage is best known for his 1989 feature documentary Weapons of the Spirit, which tells the story of a mountain community in France that defied the Nazis and took in and saved five thousand Jews, including Sauvage and his parents. Sauvage himself was born in this unique Christian oasis, Le Chambon, at a time when much of his family was being tortured and murdered in the Nazi death camps. It was only at the age of 18 that he learned that he and his family were Jewish and survivors of the Holocaust. Weapons of the Spirit won numerous awards, including the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award in Broadcast Journalism (sharing the documentary award with Ken Burns’ The Civil War series). The film received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S., accompanied by Bill Moyers’ probing 1989 interview of the filmmaker, and remains one of the most widely used documentary teaching tools on the Holocaust........ The son of journalist Léo Sauvage, Sauvage was 4 when he and his parents moved to New York City in 1948, returning to Paris at 18 to pursue his studies. After working briefly as a journalist like his father, the Sorbonne drop-out fell in love with film at Paris’ legendary Cinémathèque Française, becoming a film scholar and landing a job there working for the legendary genius Henri Langlois. Veteran émigré producer Otto Preminger brought Sauvage back to New York as a story editor. After co-editing a two-volume critical study of American film directors, American Directors, Sauvage finally got behind the camera himself as a staff producer-reporter for Los Angeles public television station KCET. While producing over 30 hours of varied programming, his first major success came when he decided to begin exploring those Jewish roots he’d never known. Yiddish: the Mame-Loshn—"the mother tongue," pronounced mama-lushen—developed into a lively, Emmy-winning portrait of a unique and tenacious language and culture. Sauvage lives in Los Angeles. He and his wife, entertainment lawyer Barbara M. Rubin, have two children, one of whom is young playwright David Sauvage. At present, Sauvage continues to focus his attention both on Le Chambon and on the American reaction to the massacre of the Jews of Europe. He contends that we in the United States—Jews and non-Jews—must probe more deeply into own experience here at that time, however challenging that may be. There was an American experience of the Holocaust too, he contends, and it is time to remember the Holocaust by looking in as well as out. A popular lecturer, Sauvage has become one of a handful of experts on rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust—"righteous Gentiles"—and has appeared on "CBS This Morning," "CBS Nightwatch" with Charlie Rose, and N.P.R. Sauvage’s lecturing and public appearances, with and without Weapons of the Spirit, are all under the Chambon Foundation’s auspices and help supports its projects. SOURCE: http://www.chambon.org/sauvage_bio_en.htm |
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