Lerner's Revenge

Summary: This documentary accompanies Ronny Lerner, an Israeli businessman, on his journey to, and in Poland in order to try and understand what happened to his family in the Holocaust. Lerner discovers that after the family had run away from their village in Poland, his father, Yitzhak Lerner, lived in Warsaw with two women under assumed identities. At the end of the war Lerner senior returned to the place where his family was murdered in order to get revenge. Now Lerner the son arrives there in order to see for himself where everything happened and he even manages to get to the last murderer. The director, Gilad Tokatli, documents the entire journey up to the day, just before the Passover festival, when Roni Lerner begins excavations in the place where his family is buried. The movie includes interviews with witnesses and archive footage.