Ghetto

original title:
Ghetto
country / year of production:
Germany , Lithuania / 2005 (x)
original length:
111 min. , color
premiere:
8 June 2006
genre:
docu dram
based on:
Joshua Sobol. Ghetto. Berlin: Quadriga-Verlag, 1984.
director:
Audrius Juzenas
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plot synopsis:
The film takes place during the occupation in the ghetto of Vilnius and deals with Jakob Gens, the commander of the Jewish ghetto police. On the one hand he cares for peace in the ghetto, but on the other hand he takes part in the selection. In his role as an accomplice of the self-managed euthanasia, he tries to prevent injury and win time until to the German defeat. Gens has a difficult role, in that he is victim and perpetrator at the same time.
keywords:
ghetto , concentration camps , Holocaust , anti-semitism , deportation , fascism
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Hermann Kruk. The last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Chronicles from the Vilna ghetto and the camps, 1939 - 1944. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2002.

Grigori Szur. Die Juden von Wilna. Die Aufzeichnungen des Grigorij Schur 1941-1944. München: DTV, 1999.
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Homepage: http://www.juedischesmuseum.de/wechselausstellungen/wilna.html
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