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Date of Birth
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20-June-1931
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Place of Birth
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Prague
(Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Czechoslovakia
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Profession
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Writer, Television Director, Film director, Television Producer, Film Producer, Screenwriter
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Zuzana Justman, born Zuzana Pick, is a Czech-American documentary filmmaker and writer. She was born in former Czechoslovakia, which she left in 1948 with her mother after surviving two years at Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. She went to New York state for college and graduate school, and settled in New York City afterward. After working as a writer and translator, in the late 1980s, she started filmmaking. She has filmed most of her documentaries in the Czech Republic and other European countries, and her topics have been the Holocaust of World War II and postwar history.
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