“Picking Up the Pieces” is a short documentary that seeks to answer one very big question: “How do you live after surviving the Holocaust?”

Nine survivors’ voices are interwoven together into an ensemble telling the untold story of the efforts of child survivors to build normal and productive lives from tragic beginnings. Forgiveness, belief in God, home, Jewish identity, and memory are the 5 themes focused on in this 28 minute long film.

While each survivor’s voice is significant, Tebeau uses the unique method of choral storytelling to create a collective choir-like narrative in the film. As he states on the film’s website, “The survivors literally finish each other’s sentences creating a fast-paced, emotionally nuanced and haunting composite portrait. At the same time, the film becomes a meditation on the interplay between memory and identity.”