Adaptation to darkness

A documentary. The story of Edwin Katzen Ellenbogen, the only Jew who was concvicted in war crimes in Buchenwald concentration camp. He was a pioneer of psychiatric research but also a con artist who became the only Jew in history convicted of Nazi war crimes. The film traces his journey from a small town in Galicia to a career as a psychiatrist in the United States of America. His actions in the Buchenwald concentration camp led him to stand trial as a Nazi war criminal. Katzen Ellenbogen's story is an allegory of how individuals adapt to moral darkness and the ways they find to thrive and blossom in the darkest of times.