Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 5, 1946
Died
January 7, 2024
Age
77
Place of Birth
Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany
Popularity
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Menachem Daum
Directing
Biography
Menachem Daum is a Holocaust survivor and a documentary film-maker. Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland. Being Jewish, many of his relatives perished in Nazi Germany's genocide. Professionally a gerontologist, he is based today in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. He has created two documentary films, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, (1997) on Hasidim in Brooklyn, and Hiding and Seeking, (2003) a film on Polish gentiles that sheltered Jews during World War II. Through his efforts, he secured the Yad Vashem award for the family that sheltered his wife's family.…
