TV Documentaries

Susanne Severeid has been the on-camera host/anchor/co-producer for several television & radio documentaries, including an Emmy Award-winning show for PBS-TV,  "C.A.N.D.L.E.S., The Story of the Mengele Twins,"  a 60-minute documentary about the surviving twins from the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele's Nazi experiments in Auschwitz.  Susanne filmed on location both at the concentration camp in Poland and in Israel, where a mock inquest into the death of Dr. Josef Mengele was held.

 ___"What shocked me the most," she said of Auschwitz,"was the sheer immensity of it.  It's hard to imagine until you are there, looking at it.  How could a group of men sit down around a table and cold-bloodedly, in a"business-like" manner, plan this mass execution of Jews, political opponents, priests, homosexuals, Gypsies, and so many others?  It is just horrible beyond words."  

 ___Susanne toured the camp with the survivors, many of whom had not  been back since the liberation at  the end of the war.  The resulting documentary won a regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement, Cultural Affairs.

Eva Kor(left), producer and Mengele survivor, and Susanne Severeid(right), program host, at the concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland for the filming of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary,
"CANDLES, The Story of the Mengele Twins."

Susanne also hosted , "Our Family," a PBS-TV , 4-part series of one-hour programs on the challenges of modern American family life.  Winner "Program of the Year" Award, nominated for a regional Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement, Public Affairs (Specials).  She also appeared as the lead/host in

Radio

Susanne worked as a freelance journalist for the European World Broadcasting Co. (100 million listeners) and conceived, co-produced, wrote, and narrated several 30-minute radio documentaries, such as "What Price Beauty?" about the lengths young women will go to to be considered beautiful;  the most luxurious brothel in Amsterdam; and "The Grand Canyon Railway," about the historic railway in Williams, Arizona.

She contributed scores of human interest pieces, on ABC National Radio, Canadian Public Broadcasting, etc.  Susanne also covered major European events, such as the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam,  hosted her own jazz program in Holland (Susanne on Sunday) and contributed a light-heated weekly commentary, Spotlite on Hollywood, for the Hospital Network channel.

Susanne Severeid interviews "The Marshall" on the Grand Canyon Railway for National Public Radio.