Symphony of the Holocaust

Symphony of the Holocaust is a documentary film about the miraculous survival, life, and final wish of master violinist and 13-year-old Holocaust survivor Shony Alex Braun, who later transformed his horrific experience in four Nazi death camps into the Symphony of the Holocaust, a haunting and hopeful musical testament to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two.

  • Greg DeHart
    Director
  • Paul Dzilvelis
    Producer
  • Paul Freedman
    Producer
  • Garrett Zook Sutton
    Producer
  • Shony Alex Braun
    Key Cast
    "Shony"
  • Shari Braun
    Key Cast
    "Shari"
  • Dr. Noreen Green
    Key Cast
    "Dr. Noreen Green"
  • Dinah Griffin
    Key Cast
    "Dinah Griffin"
  • Bob Griffin
    Key Cast
    "Bob Griffin"
  • Sierra Griffin Rechnitz
    Key Cast
    "Sierra Griffin Rechnitz"
  • Dane Griffin
    Key Cast
    "Dane Griffin"
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 27, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    200,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Sony FX-9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Jewish Nevada Film Festival
    Las Vegas, NV
    United States
    January 27, 2024
Distribution Information
  • Sunn Stream
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Greg DeHart

Greg is an Emmy Award winning Show runner, Director, and Producer with over 60 documentary and non-fiction credits. Greg’s diverse resume includes shows on human rights, food, technology, world travel, and animals. One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp follows five children at Camp Erin, a grief camp for children who have experienced the death of a loved one. The HBO film went on to win a 2014 Prime time Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program. S-21: Inside Pol Pot’s Secret Prison exposes the horrors behind the walls of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge notorious prison, garnering two Emmy nominations and the prestigious International Documentary Association Award for Best Episode in a Continuing Series. Greg’s film, Nazi America takes an unprecedented look at the inner workings of The Aryan Nations and several other Nazi organizations across America. Greg was the supervising producer for Food Tech, a 10 episode series showing how America’s food industry feeds 300 million people a day. He is also honored to have written, produced and directed 15 episodes of Modern Marvels, the most prolific science and technology series ever produced. Greg traveled to Guinea, West Africa where he filmed and produced 10 public service announcements about Ebola survivors who suffered through the 2014 Ebola crisis. Recently, Greg recently produced an episode of Netflix’s revamped, Unsolved Mysteries, as well as a feature documentary, Liberating Amnon, about a Second Generation Holocaust Survivor’s journey to find the truth about his parents.

Greg's shows have won numerous other film festival and industry awards, airing on HBO, History, Discovery, National Geographic, Travel, and A&E, to name a few.

A former professional baseball player, Greg has just finished a film about, Max Patkin: The Clown Prince of Baseball.

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Director Statement

The title of violin prodigy Shony Braun’s Symphony of the Holocaust is both provocative and perverse. Those words that should not be together. But after learning how Shony survived four Nazi death camps, how the Nazis murdered several members of his family, and how he used his tragic journey to compose his symphony, it became clear that the words “symphony” and “Holocaust” fit together perfectly.

Shony was a master musician. He was also a kind, loving, and forgiving man, who created a musical masterpiece. His Symphony of the Holocaust takes us all through the horror and redemption of the his experience, and finally, to the concert stages in America. Then, years after Shony’s death, to witness his family enlist an Armenian violinist whose family survived the Armenian genocide, and for him to fulfill Shony’s final wish of having his symphony played at the gates of the Auschwitz death camp, we are privy to Shony saying, “We’re still here!”. Shony’s journey then becomes ours, and lifts all of us to our higher selves.