Destination Unknown
Claire Ferguson's documentary is a powerful, valuable addition to the Holocaust testimony genre, established 30 years ago by Claude Lanzmann.
Destination Unknown
Destination Unknown blends intimate testimony with immersive archive to bring the stories of twelve Holocaust survivors to the screen.
The film creates a seamless mosaic of first-hand accounts, rare archive from the time, and family Super 8 footage from after the war. The survivors share their memories, some for the first time, some for the last, bringing their experiences to a new generation.
They endured the death camps. They hid in remote farms. They fought as partisans in Polish forests. But when the war ended, those survivors’ struggles were only just beginning. With the only interview ever recorded of Mietek Pemper, the stenographer for the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp Commandant - Amon Göth and advisor to Oskar Schindler, who previously refused to talk on film, among other incredible personal stories, Destination Unknown paints a uniquely intimate portrait of survival, revealing the pain that has never faded, but cannot crush the human spirit.
Their stories do not end with liberation. We see how they had to survive the chaos that came afterwards, and their attempts to build new lives.
Yad Vashem and the USC Shoah Foundation have fully endorsed the film and the USC Shoah Foundation has come on as a partner.
The film creates a seamless mosaic of first-hand accounts, rare archive from the time, and family Super 8 footage from after the war. The survivors share their memories, some for the first time, some for the last, bringing their experiences to a new generation.
They endured the death camps. They hid in remote farms. They fought as partisans in Polish forests. But when the war ended, those survivors’ struggles were only just beginning. With the only interview ever recorded of Mietek Pemper, the stenographer for the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp Commandant - Amon Göth and advisor to Oskar Schindler, who previously refused to talk on film, among other incredible personal stories, Destination Unknown paints a uniquely intimate portrait of survival, revealing the pain that has never faded, but cannot crush the human spirit.
Their stories do not end with liberation. We see how they had to survive the chaos that came afterwards, and their attempts to build new lives.
Yad Vashem and the USC Shoah Foundation have fully endorsed the film and the USC Shoah Foundation has come on as a partner.
Genre
Documentary,
Jewish Culture,
History
Runtime
82
Language
English
Director
Claire Ferguson
FEATURED REVIEW
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
‘After the war I raised two sons. I have seven grandchildren, and they are my answer to Hitler’s final solution.’ So says one of the Jewish concentration camp survivors interviewed in this forceful documentary tasked with gathering first-person stories of the Holocaust before the generation who ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 11.10.17 - 11.16.17
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