Reviews
Los Angeles Times
MOVIE REVIEW : 'Steal a Pencil for Me' tells an unusual love story with grace
By Kevin Crust
November 9th, 2007
Jack Polak was unhappily married when he met Ina Soep. Then they and Jack's wife were sent to the same concentration camp. Read More
The New York Times
Steal A Pencil For Me
by Matt Zoller Seitz
November 9th, 2007
"I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend," says the 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Jack Polak in Michèle Ohayon's documentary "Steal a Pencil... Read More
New York Daily News
3 Stars - Short Takes: More movie reviews
by Elizabeth Weitzman
November 9th, 2007
If Michele Ohayon's absorbing documentary didn't provide the proof, you'd never believe the story she tells about Holocaust survivors Jack Polak and Ina... Read More
Daily Variety
FILM REVIEWS : Steal a Pencil for Me (Documentary)
By Joe Leydon
November 7th, 2007
Describing what "Steal a Pencil for Me" is about might actually do a disservice to this affectionately observed documentary. Read More
The Village Voice
Tracking Shots:Steal a Pencil for Me
by Ella Taylor
November 6th, 2007
Not your mother's Holocaust movie, Michéle Ohayon's gripping documentary asks you both to weep for and celebrate a Dutch Jew who maintained a wife and... Read More
Woodstock Times
Where filmmaking begins...With an improbable love story, of course
by Paul Smart
October 4th, 2007
Ever wonder why it is that film festivals are so important to our sense of history, as well as our culture? Consider this story... Read More
The New York Times
In Woodstock, Redefining ‘Festival’
By Cynthia Werthamer
September 30th, 2007
The documentaries this year include one featuring a Westchester couple, Jaap and Ina Polak. “Steal a Pencil for Me,” directed by Michèle Ohayon, is about... Read More
Associated Press / Jewish Federation of St. Louis
U.N. screens documentary on survivors to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
By LILY HINDY
April 16th, 2007
The U.N. marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a screening of "Steal a Pencil For Me," a documentary based on the love letters exchanged by two Holocaust... Read More
Austin Chronicle
SXSW Film Daily reviews and interviews
By Melanie Haupt
March 16th, 2007
Israeli director Ohayon puts a unique spin on stories of the Holocaust with Steal a Pencil for Me, adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name. In... Read More
Eric D. Snider's Blog
SXSW Diary 2007: Day 5
by Eric D. Snider
March 13th, 2007
“Steal a Pencil for Me” is a love story, really, about a Dutch couple who survived the war together and have now been married for 60 years. At the time,... Read More
Film Threat
**** Excellent! - 2007 SXSW SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES DOCUMENTARY FEATURE!
by Zack Haddad
March 11th, 2007
The Holocaust has had a giant impact on how we are as a human race. Many films and books have been created and it is very hard with such subject matter... Read More
eFilmCritic.com
SXSW '07 Interview: "Steal a Pencil for Me" Director Michele Ohayon
by Scott Weinberg
March 4th, 2007
The "Steal a Pencil for Me" Pitch: Jack, his wife and his new love, Ina, find themselves in the same barrack in a concentration camp. When Jack's wife... Read More
indieWIRE:Movies
DOC COLUMN: Fests Bring Out the Docs in March
by Jonny Leahan
March 1st, 2007
A sampling of other highly anticipated world premieres at SXSW include...Michele Ohayon's "Steal A Pencil For Me", a remarkable love story that follows... Read More
