I’m so grateful to the JCC, WIVB-TV, and the station’s general manager Joe Abouzeid, for allowing me to share this collection with the Jewish community of Western New York. Putting it together was truly a labor of love. History, as told through the eyes of local broadcast journalists offers a living chronicle of community life and major events that help shape our destiny as a people.

My greatest hope is that new generations of students will view this moving image history with great interest. Some incredible moments in time were captured on film and videotape. I believe the lessons we can learn from local Holocaust survivors are perhaps most important of all. Hearing their stories firsthand and producing them for a television audience helped me come to grips with history’s darkest chapter.

There are many upbeat stories in this collection that include wonderful family reunions of shtetl descendants, as well as the contributions of outstanding Jewish broadcasters, entertainers, religious leaders, and historical figures whose Buffalo legacies will live on forever.

View the full archive here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7832318