WQED Wins Gabriel Award for From Pittsburgh to Poland: Lessons of the Holocaust

WQED Wins Gabriel Award for From Pittsburgh to Poland: Lessons of the Holocaust

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- WQED Multimedia has been honored with a Gabriel Award in the News/Informational - Local Release category for its production of From Pittsburgh to Poland: Lessons of the Holocaust. The one- hour documentary chronicled an emotional journey by Holocaust survivors and interfaith teachers from Pittsburgh to World War II Nazi concentration camps and small towns.

The award will be presented at a gala in Los Angeles on October 20.

The Gabriel Awards are sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals and are designed to honor works of excellence in broadcasting which serves viewers and listeners through the positive, creative treatment of concerns to mankind. By sponsoring this annual awards competition, Catholic Academy hopes to encourage broadcasters and producers to provide programming that serves, enriches and challenges their communities.

Honored for their work were:

David Solomon - writer & producer
Michael Bartley - reporter, narrator
Pierina Morelli - photographer & editor
Paul Ruggieri - photographer & editor
Iris Samson - associate producer

In May 2005, the crew of WQED's On Q Magazine traveled to Poland to chronicle the March of the Living. The international program brings together thousands of people on Holocaust Remembrance Day, where they march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, former Nazi labor and death camps. The Pittsburgh-area teachers were invited to witness not only the horrors, but also stories of hope -- and to subsequently incorporate what they saw into their curriculums.

From Pittsburgh to Poland: Lessons of the Holocaust was made possible thanks to funding from United Jewish Federation Foundation; Samuel, Fannie and Irwin A. Solow Endowment Fund; Ira H. Gordon Endowment Fund; Glimcher Fellows Endowment Fund; Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh; Agency for Jewish Learning; and the Grable Foundation.

WQED Multimedia provides quality products and services to engage, inform, educate and entertain the public within its community and around the world. It is the parent company of WQED tv13, WQEX - your America's Store channel, WQED fm89.3, WQEJ fm89.7/Johnstown, a publishing division that includes PITTSBURGH magazine, local and national television and radio productions, www.wqed.org and the WQED Education and Community Resource Center.

Source: WQED Multimedia

CONTACT: Rosemary Martinelli, +1-412-622-6433, or rmartine@wqed.org, or
George Hazimanolis, +1-412-62201366, or ghaziman@wqed.org, both of WQED
Multimedia

Web site: http://www.wqed.org/

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