A Story of Survival
Digiplex Theaters April 27 & 30
In Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 27
On April 11, 1945,
Buchenwald was liberated. Nearly 1,000 boys survived. Sixty-five years later,
on April 11, 2010 several of the surviving boys from block 66 returned to
Weimer and to Buchenwald. “Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald” is their story. This profoundly moving film provides
a powerful look into the harrowing experiences and the lives of the Holocaust
survivors from a children’s barrack, Block 66, at the notorious Buchenwald
concentration camp.
The Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany was a
Nazi slave labor camp where thousands of Jews were killed, many more were also
sent to Auschwitz to die. A large growing number of teenage European
Jewish boys were being transferred to Buchenwald.
The German Communist-led underground there made a
conscious decision to protect them. The youths did not work and were
cared for and protected by the block leaders, Antonin Kalina, a Czech Communist
and his deputy, Gustav Schiller, a Polish Jew. The leaders strove until
the last days of the war to keep the boys from danger...seeing in them the hope
for the future. On April 11, 1945, Buchenwald was liberated. Nearly 1000
boys survived.
 |
| Survivor Pavel Kohn in Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald |
Sixty-five years later, four of the surviving boys journey
to reunite at Buchenwald to tell their story for a commemoration of the
liberation of the camp by Allied forces. Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald depicts their survival in a riveting story of good triumphing
over evil.
This is the story of Naftali-Duro Furst from
Czechoslovakia, Pavel Kohn of Prague, Israel-Laszio
Lazar of Romania and Alex Moskovic of Czechoslovakia.
Four boys desperate to live....they survived as boys and came back as men
to tell their story. Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald is a DigiNext exclusive only at Digiplex Theaters on April 27 & 30.
Digiplex Theaters April 27 & 30
