Schatten des Schweigens

original title:
Schatten des Schweigens
other titles:
Shadows of Silence
country / year of production:
Germany / 2004 (x)
original length:
90 min. , color
premiere:
24 November 2005, RBB
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Martina Dase
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plot synopsis:
This documentary tells the story of Ken Kipperman, a holocaust victim in then second generation. The TV pictures of the concentration camp Buchenwald have left their marks on his life. During his obsessed private researche he finds a track of the lampshade made of human skin. No matter if it is true or just a myth, the lampshade is very important for our culture of remembrance.
keywords:
made-for-TV film , anti-semitism , Holocaust , concentration camps , exile , shell shock
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Wolfgang Benz/ Barbara Distel (Hg.). Der Ort des Terrors: Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Bd. 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. München: Beck, 2006.
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