Had a pretty busy day today. First appointment was with a woman who survived the Holocaust; I got her number from the Holocaust Center at the JCC and hoped to record her story. I met her at her new residence - a Winter Park retirement home. She had been reluctant to meet and to tell her story on camera, because she doesn't think her experience is as traumatic as some of the other survivors. I told her about our Lifetime Tribute Videos and asked her some questions about her life. She was very open to talking about it off camera and the story was quite interesting.

She grew up in Germany and her family owned department stores. She remembers the rise of anti-semitism and the protests outside of her family's store and home. Her father fled Germany in the middle of the night to live with relatives in New Orleans. Things continued to get worse in the time before she could join him. It was so bad that she couldn't even go outside to walk her dog - she had to give up the dog instead. Nine months later her and the rest of her family joined him in America. Her grandparents were the only ones who stayed behind and they were killed by the Nazis. After talking to me for a while, she agreed to the video interview.

Just before noon I met with a man who owns a local duplication house. He specializes in large volume DVD dubs and gave me some good information about printing labels for DVDs. He uses a special kind of sticky label that will never peal or fade.

I drove straight right to another duplication company who can transfer film to DVD. The owner was a weird freaking guy named Vito. His company seems solid (they've been in business for 25 years) and I trust that he will do a good job with the film, but I'll try to have as little personal involvement as possible. He was all into Christian Rock. He will not dub anything with a bad word. But that's not what made him so weird - he just had a strange manner about him that I can't describe.