Photographer. Lodz Ghetto Through the Lens of Walter Genewein
Description
In 1987, in a Viennese shop, hundreds of color slides from World War II were found. It turned out they had been made in the Lodz ghetto by a skilled amateur photographer named Walter Genewein, chief accountant on the ghetto council and a proud member of the Nazi party. In this documentary, filmmaker Dariusz Jablonski combines Genewein's disturbing images of ghetto life with the recollections of Dr. Arnold Mostowicz, the last surviving witness of the events portrayed, to create an important testament to the suffering and subsequent extermination of the ghetto's Jews. "In the midst of atrocity, [Genewein] saw only German success," says The Daily Telegraph (London).
Runtime
80 min
Subjects
- Human geography (324)
- Judaism (103)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (109)
- Geopolitics (27)
- Race discrimination (130)
- Photographs (4)
- World politics (2067)
- Ethnicity (289)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c1998
Database
Films on Demand
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