This documentary, produced by the Romanian network Pro Tv, tells of the Holocaust in Romania; The Romanian Fascism, Antonescu, corporation with Nazi Germany, Iasi Pogrom, Transnistria, the Jews of Bessarabia and Bukovina, the Romania Army in the East Front, Jewish immigration to Eretz-Israel. Including archive footages and photos, documents, paintings, historical commentary, eye-testimonies.
The film deals with Transnistria, a region under Romanian/German control in south west Ukraine which was annexed to Romania in return for its participation in the war against the Soviet Union. In Transnistria Jews were concentrated in hundreds of camps and ghettos and tens of thousands died of hunger, cold and disease. The film describes fascism in Romania, deportation of the Jews, terrorism and murder in the camps, rescue of the orphans of Transnistria. It includes testimonies of survivors most of whom where children and youth during the Holocaust, historians' analysis, connecting parts by the actress and...
A feature film. In 1941 the Bucharest Pogrom breaks out at local cinema. A ten year old Jewish boy is an eye witness to his father's murder by his next door neighbor, the leader of the fascist militia. After surviving the massacre of Romania's Jews postwar Romania does not join the pursuit for justice. The young boy emigrates to the state of Israel.. Learning that his father's killer is now fighting in Vietnam with the French Foreign Legion while he is fulfilling his own military service in Israel, hedeserts and embarks on a quest for truth, justice, and revenge. This saga unfolds at the 1955 Court Martial in...