What they have in common, apart from the specific horrors each one of them was subjected to, is their intelligence, an incisive, sharp and carnal intelligence that rejects all pretence and false reason – in a word – idealism. By the director of the monumental Shoah.
Paula Biren, Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman and Hanna Marton - four names of Jewish women, witnesses and survivors of the most insane and ruthless savagery, and who, for this sole reason - but for many others too - deserve to be etched for ever more in human memory.
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גDrama is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Part of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to escape and joined the partisans.