When Otto Dov Kulka was 11 years old and had to start the death march from Auschwitz to Groß-Rosen, he saw a prisoner lying with a broken leg on the orders of the defendant Baretzki who then probably shot him. Unlike this unknown prisoner, Kulka managed to escape death. Nineteen years later, he testified alongside 210 other Auschwitz survivors against 20 indicted former SS officials, participating in a trial that confronted the German people with their past and gave voice to silence.
Jakob Werner, born in 1994 in Bückeburg, Germany, studied Visual Design at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam from 2014 until 2021. His passion for filmmaking already became important early in his life so he decided to focus on his studies on Motion Design and Animation. He now works as a freelance Motion Designer, Illustrator and Filmmaker. Animation and Motion Design is a powerful and expressive medium for him to tell stories of people who should be heard.
