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Documentary about Punar, a memorial in a forest near Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where between 70 and 100 thousand people were shot during the Second World War, most of them Jews. Filmed in Punar and based on the testimonies of survivors and the diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in Punar during the time of the Nazi occupation and who was killed in the last days of the war. His diary was found by Dr Rachel Margolis, a Holocaust researcher from Vilna, who participates in the film. Some of the witnesses in the film miraculously survived the shootings and crawled out from under the pile of...

Director : לימור פנחסוב בן-יוסף, ירון כפתורי בן-יוסף

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 93

Language : Hebrew, Russian