Menachem Daum (October 5, 1946 – January 7, 2024) was an American Orthodox Jewish documentary filmmaker.
Born in displaced persons camp in Germany, to refugees from Poland who had survived the Holocaust.
His 2004 film, Hiding and Seeking, began as a search to reconnect with the Poles that sheltered his family.
The Jewish Week wrote of Daum's work on this film, "The film speaks more deeply to how religious intolerance is insidious no matter who is practicing it, and upbraids Holocaust survivors who broke all ties with their rescuers, despite wartime promises to stay in touch forever".
"I believe in the importance of self-criticism for all communities, Jewish, non-Jewish Islamic, Christian", says Daum.