By Julie Jensen and Ruth Oron
Two people could hardly be more different in background than we are: Julie Jensen, born in Nazi Germany in 1939, and Ruth Oron, born in Israel in 1943. Yet we both agree that the film Brushstrokes by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman presents what people throughout the world need to learn in order for prejudice and cruelty to end between nations and individuals.
This animated film against racism was produced for the United Nations to uphold the spirit of the 1948 U.N. General Assembly Resolution 217, which ends with these words:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights…. without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.