Voices from the Attic

Debbie Goodstein has created an incredibly moving documentary about her family’s experience in hiding during the Holocaust, and about the effects of their experiences on the next generation. Sixteen members of the Frishberg family hid for two frightening years in the attic of a peasant’s home in rural Poland, and then spent most of their lives afterwards trying to forget what happened. Yet their children somehow knew what their parents went through. Deciding to confront her personal demons, Goodstein went back to Poland with her aunt and a group of cousins to meet the woman who sheltered her family. This film is a journey into the past and a story of family triumph. 1989 Berlin Film Festival; 1989 San Francisco International Film Festival.