[4] Block had been interested in photography since she was a pre-teen, when she started taking pictures of her friends and family using a Brownie box camera.
Block collaborated with author and rabbi Malka Drucker to create Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, both a book and traveling exhibit.
[8] Her video of the material, "Bertha Alyce", was awarded People's Choice and Best Documentary by the Madrid International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Spain.
[9] Block's documentary technique is considered by the critic to be "assured, if reminiscent of Duane Michaels or Nan Goldin.
"[9] In 1986, Rabbi Harold Schulweis, author Malka Drucker and Gay Block decided to document activities of non-Jewish Europeans who risked torture and death to save Jews during the Holocaust, a topic they considered both important and under-publicized.