Holocaust Survivor's Story To Be Adapted as Feature Film for Young Adults

Production company, barrage flix, today appear that it has accomplished an advantage acceding with Lerner Publishing Group for a affection blur based on the activity adventure of Holocaust survivor and columnist Henry A. Oertelt, based on his award-winning book An Unbroken Chain, My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust (© 2000, Lerner). The blur will be marketed to adolescent adults.

Las Vegas, NV -- National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE) Production company, barrage flix, today appear that it has accomplished an advantage acceding with Lerner Publishing Group for a affection blur based on the activity adventure of Holocaust survivor and columnist Henry A. Oertelt, based on his award-winning book An Unbroken Chain, My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust (© 2000, Lerner). Born in Berlin, of Jewish faith, Oertelt was 12 if Hitler came to ability in 1933.

"I am beholden to accept had the befalling to allege to audiences for the accomplished 40 years to allotment my bulletin of altruism and hope," Oertelt said. "This cine will acquaint new ancestors and advice assure that the horrors I and others lived through will not be repeated."

On November 9, 1938, as a teenager, Oertelt witnessed contiguous the confusion of Kristallnacht, "the night of broken glass," with his mother and brother. On that night, Hitler systematically unleashed a night of unparalleled abolition which abounding accede to be the alpha of the Holocaust. On that night Hitler's amber shirted storm troopers austere and burst amaranthine Jewish businesses, homes and temples, (including Oertelt's adjacency synagogue), and began rounding up and alteration the aboriginal 30,000 of what would become six actor Jews to absorption camps.

In An Unbroken Chain, Oertelt examines what he calls 18 abstracted but appropriately acute "links" in the alternation of contest that kept him breath 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 analysis he needed, Oertelt retraces the encounters and situations that afflicted his destiny. Although generally sad and shocking, the arresting contest of Henry's life, as able-bodied as his amazing backbone and achievement will blow the lives and hearts of cine goers everywhere.

Eighty-eight year old Holocaust survivor Henry Oertelt was absolved by General Patton's Third Army during the Flossenburg Death March in April, 1945. He accustomed in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1949 and has spent 40 years lecturing about his adventures and the accent of tolerance, political involvement, and against hatred. Oertelt is a affiliate of the Jewish Community Relations Council's (JCRC) Holocaust Education Commission, a almsman of JCRC's "Volunteer of the Year" award, as able-bodied as almsman of the acclaimed "Eleven Who Care" account from KARE 11-TV in Minnesota. On April 23, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota, accustomed him with the key to the city-limits and proclaimed "Henry A. Oertelt Day." Oertelt is additionally a almsman of two honorary doctorate degrees from St. Cloud State University and SouthWest Minnesota State University.

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About Lerner Publishing Group
Lerner Publishing Group, based in Minneapolis, is one of the nation's better apart endemic children's book publishers. With added than 3,500 titles in print, Lerner Publishing Group offers top-quality album and fiction books for grades K-12. An Unbroken Chain is accessible at bookstores civic or through Kar-Ben Publishing, a analysis of Lerner Publishing Group. For added advice appointment www.karben.com.

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