A Tailor in The Making examines how creativity energizes and heals those who are suffering. In Buchenwald, Terezin and Auschwitz, some prisoners created art as a means to escape and express what could not be spoken. This moment allowed them to connect with their individual identities, in a place of cold, numeric regulation and dehumanization. Some of the works still exist, hidden in the corners of cell blocks and barracks. Through the words, dreams and paintings of Ben Altman, a survivor of five camps in Poland, a lifetime of memories pour forth.

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