Forgotten Transports to Poland

General Information

Author/Creator
Pribyl, Lukas, director.
Published
Czech Republic, 2008.
Physical Description
DVD-ROM (88 min.)
Digital ver. identifier
HU_OSA_00003322

Contents/Summary

Summary
This is the last of four films in the Forgotten Transports cycle of documentaries by director Lukas Pribyl. It deals with lesser known concentration, labour and extermination camps in what is now Poland. The intricate stories of several men and women from the Czech Republic take us to ghettoes and camps in Lublin, Zamosc, Piaski, Sobibor and Sawin. In this instance, the tales of these Jewish heroes and heroines mostly recount stories of escape and concealment from the Nazis in Hungary and today's Poland. This adds a new dimension to the story of the Holocaust, which is augmented by the active resistance of captive and brutally treated Jews. They took various routes to freedom, ranging from an uprising in the Sobibor camp to dangerously pretending to be a deaf-and-dumb simpleton who could prove his apparent non-Jewishness with an uncircumcised penis. This last documentary about forgotten transports to the east makes extensive use of archive materials and paints a surprising portrait of the Holocaust, which reshapes the somewhat one-sided view of life and survival of the Jewish population during the Second World War. Consequently, the dichotomy of passive victims and active aggressors gradually dissolves…

Subjects

Genre
Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note
Verzio Film Festival Submission
Library Special Collection
Verzio Film Festival Submission

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Call Number Status Shelving Location Public Note
DVD-ROMOSA Film LibraryFL Record 1698Available--
Digital filmOSA Film LibraryFL Record 1698
(HU_OSA_00003322.mp4)
AvailableAccess Copy, MP4 format