Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis

HERO OR TRAITOR? Rezso Kasztner known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland, and may have saved tens of thousands more lives. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel; accused as a collaborator in a trial and verdict that divided a nation and forever stamped him as the "man who sold his soul to the devil." He was ultimately assassinated by Jewish right wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957. Director Gaylen Ross investigates this tale of murder, intrigue, and heroism through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner's assassin, Ze’ev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner's only daughter, Zsuzsi.


“Brilliant.. I urge everyone, Jew and Gentile, to see this film”
Former NY Mayor Ed Koch, The Atlantic Monthly


“See this film to understand the choices the Holocaust forced human beings to make.” - Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust survivor

“Superb!”- Marty Peretz, The New Republic

“Splendid!” - Jerome Chanes, The Forward

“One of the Ten Best Films of The Year”- Hannah Brown, The Jerusalem Post