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A documentary film. Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival during the Holocaust. Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet whose verse drew on his youth in Siberia and Vilna, his spiritual and material resistance during World War II, and his post-war life in the State of Israel. The film includes Sutzkever’s testimony at the Nuremberg Trials. Recitation of his poetry and personal reflections on resisting Nazi forces as a partisan fighter reveals how...

Director : Christa P. Whitney

Production Year : 2020

Duration : 60

Language : English, Hebrew, Yiddish

Black Honey, The Life and and Poetry of Avraham Sutskever

A documentary film. The life story of Avrom Sutzkever, one of the greatest Yiddish poets of the twentieth century. Sutzkever helped save rare Jewish books and manuscripts from the Nazis, joined the partisans, and after escaping the Vilna Ghetto, was brought to the USSR as the result of the actions of Jewish writers linked to the regime. After the war, Sutzkever testified at the Nuremberg Trials, and left Europe for Israel with his family. There he founded the most important Yiddish language literary magazine of the period, but did not gain recognition.

Director : Uri Barbash

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 76

Language : English, Hebrew, Yiddish