​Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk

[Cindy McMurray]

The Jewish Studies Program at SUNY Plattsburgh welcomes Bruce Carlin, Julie
Canepa, and Paul Frederick to campus for this year’s Douglas R. Skopp
Speakers Series on the Theme of the Holocaust.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

SUNY Plattsburgh campus - Yokum Lecture Hall 200*, 5 – 7 p.m.

·       5-6 p.m.: Screening of Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of
Vladimir Munk

·       6-7 p.m.: Talk-back with Bruce Carlin, Julie Canepa, and Paul
Frederick



Carlin, Canepa, and Frederick are the creative team that produced Return to
Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk. The documentary is a moving
account of Czech Holocaust survivor and retired SUNY Plattsburgh faculty
member Vladimir Munk. The film follows Vladimir in 2020, at age 95, as he
returns to the killing center of Auschwitz-Birkenau – one of the camps
where he was held prisoner during World War II.



Bruce Carlin is co-producer, co-writer and co-editor of Return to
Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk. He has worked as a video producer
since 1981, first working for WPTZ and then starting his own firm in 1993.
Carlin was a partner for 16 years at Media Central and has co-produced
several documentaries including The Final Invasion, The Battle of
Plattsburgh and the War of 1812, and the 2014 Emmy© nominated biography Divine
Discontent: Charles Proteus Steinmetz, which aired nationally on PBS
stations around the country. He lives in West Chazy with his wife and
enjoys traveling and spending time with his grandchildren.



Julie Canepa co-produced Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk,
which was based on a series of articles she wrote for Sun Community
Newspapers in 2019. She has written for other publications including Northern
HG&L Magazine, LOCALadk Magazine, Strictly Business/Strictly Food for
Thought and Lake Champlain Weekly. Canepa is a talented singer and chef who
resides in Plattsburgh with her husband and daughter. She is currently
writing a book on Holocaust survivors Vladimir and Kitty Munk.

Paul Frederick, co-producer, director and co-editor of Return to Auschwitz:
The Survival of Vladimir Munk, is an award-winning videographer who began
his career at Mountain Lake PBS where he was well known for his travel
programs and documentaries. He started his own company in 2000, Paul
Frederick Productions. His work includes the 2014 Emmy© nominated
biography Divine
Discontent: Charles Proteus Steinmetz, which aired nationally on PBS
stations around the country. Frederick also has created a number of
documentaries on such subjects as the Air Force Thunderbirds, The Hudson
River School of Painters, Seneca Ray Stoddard, and Henry Miner. A talented
painter, photographer and bowler, Frederick lives in West Chazy with his
wife and their English bulldog Auggie.



The Douglas R. Skopp Speakers Series on the Theme of the Holocaust is free
of charge and open to all members of the SUNY Plattsburgh community and the
community-at-large.

The Douglas R. Skopp Speakers Series on the Theme of the Holocaust is made
possible by generous alumni gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.



For further information about The Douglas R. Skopp Speakers Series on the
Theme of the Holocaust and the Jewish Studies Program at SUNY Plattsburgh,
please contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director of the Jewish Studies Program:
(518) 564-2284; slaterjr at plattsburgh.edu.



*Mask/face-covering will be required.
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