Kovno Ghetto - Religious Life in Slobodka

A short documentary film. This film deals with Tfaith in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto and tells the story of the Slovotka Yeshiva (Knesset of Israel) and its students. The movie focuses on the study of Judaism and on the observance of prayers and mitzvos in public. The yeshiva, which was a center of attraction for many young people from all over Lithuania and especially from the countryside, was virtually closed at the beginning of the war. But its leaders and students who remained in Kaunas continued study and prayer frameworks. Among the main figures was Rabbi Grozinski - rabbi of the yeshiva. The film consists testimonies of two of the yeshiva students - Rabbi Yitzchak Gibraltar and Shmuel Ben Menachem and a number of still images of the interviewees themselves, the yeshiva, and the rabbis of the community.