THE TEAM "For a long time I thought of this as the work of my dreams. Then I started to understand that it was also the work of my nightmares." Aviva Slesin Project Director, Producer/Director Hidden Child Aviva started as a film editor for the first 12 years of her career. She then went on to become a producer/director of award-winning documentaries. She won an Academy Award for The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, and has also produced and directed many other documentaries that have all aired on PBS, TBS, or HBO. Among them are: Directed by William Wyler; Voices in Celebration: The National Gallery of Art; and Hot On the Trail: Sex, Love, and Romance in the Old West. Aviva was born in Lithuania, and was hidden as a baby by a Lithuanian family during World War II. "Each succeeding generation - the children of survivors, the grandchildren - is a little farther removed from the dead. But the reverberations from that time continue to resound." Toby Appleton Perl Co-Producer, Writer Daughter of two Holocaust survivors TOBY APPLETON PERL was co-producer of RESISTANCE:Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans, an independent documentary which was broadcast nationally in April 2002 on PBS.  The executive producer was David Garth of the Garth Group, Inc., a media consulting firm specializing in political, corporate and public interest campaigns where Ms. Perl served as a producer and vice president. While living in San Francisco, Ms. Perl was staff producer for Colossal Pictures, a special effects and animation company.  She has also researched and produced a number of independent educational shorts and series on topics ranging from democracy to AIDS. "What instantly drew me in to SECRET LIVES was the question, 'What would I have done?'" Ann Rubenstein Tisch Executive Producer Ann Tisch is President of the Young Women's Leadership Foundation and the founder of the Young Women's Leadership School, a groundbreaking all-girls public school in East Harlem, New York. She worked for many years in broadcast journalism. At NBC, Ann worked on several magazine shows, covering political, medical, and human interest stories. She serves on the Dean's Council of the New York University Tisch School for the Arts and the Advisory Board of the Center for Educational Innovation. Ann has an enthusiastic commitment to SECRET LIVES because of her strong journalistic background, her interest in Jewish issues, and her involvement in the Jewish community. "I found myself moved by these lives and relationships born out of the horrors of the war. Their stories are an inspiration." Ken Eluto Editor Ken has been a film and video editor for over 20 years working on both documentary and dramatic shows. He won an Emmy for his work on the documentary Long Journey Home: The Irish in America and was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the Peabody award winning and Academy award nominated documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane. He has worked on television series including Homicide: Life on the Street and OZ. Fallen Heroes Part 2, an episode of Homicide, won the International Monitor Award for Best Editor. Recently, Ken edited the HBO movie Shot in the Heart directed by Agnieszka Holland and produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. Distribution