The Last Days

The Last Days
by James Moll

The Last Days
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Actor: Joachim von Ribbentrop, Josef Goebbels, Katsugo Miho, Robin Zisblatt, Tom Lantos
Director: James Moll
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Polygram USA Video

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Movie Review: The Calm and Deliberate Murder of Hungarian Jews
Summary: 5 Stars

Many Hungarian Jews perceived themselves as loyal and enthusiastic citizens of their chosen country. They took it for granted that their Christian neighbors were true friends and wished them no harm. This illusion was brutally shattered after the Nazi invasion. These Christians often took special delight in harassing Jews and handing them over to Hitler's thugs. What happened to God? Why did He allow such evil to exist? You will find the interviews with these survivors of the Holocaust riveting.

The Hungarian aspect of the Holocaust is most interesting, if for no other reason, but to show how committed the Nazis were to slaughtering Jews and others deemed racially inferior---even if it jeopardized their war efforts. Indeed, it appears that Jew killing was deemed of paramount importance. Nothing else was allowed to stand in the way. One might even argue that the Third Reich's emphasis on sending victims to the death camps cost it the war.

Summary of The Last Days

In the last year of World War II, German defeat was inevitable. Yet rather than reinforcing his troops and focusing his efforts on battle, Hitler chose to renew his campaign to eliminate the Jews of Europe. Hungary, which had remained mostly untouched during the war, found her Jews being rounded up and shipped off to concentration camps where they were systematically and brutally killed during these last days. This documentary, directed by James Moll and produced through the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, whose goal is to document the memories of those who lived through the Holocaust, records the stories of five Hungarian Jews who managed to survive.

The five survivors, all now living in the United States, movingly tell how they made it and recount the tragedies they witnessed: Tom Lantos, a Congressman from California, whose 17?grandchildren are a gift from his two daughters to try to make up for the families Lantos and his wife lost; Alice Lok Cahana, an artist who uses her painting to testify to what she saw and to grieve for the meaningless death of her sister Edith; Bill Basch, who while working for the resistance escaped from Hungarian police by joining a group of Jews that were, unknowingly, being led to Buchenwald; Renee Firestone, an educator at Simon Wiesenthal Center's Educational Outreach Program, whose touching connection to the past is discovered in the simple gift of a bathing suit given to her by her father; and Irene Zisblatt, a grandmother who smuggled out, at tremendous risk, a few precious diamonds in order to buy bread when there was no more food to be had. Other interviewees include American liberators, a superkommando, and a Nazi doctor who performed experiments on camp inmates.

While the stories are tragic and watching this documentary is a tearful experience, the final message is one of hope, as the five people return to Hungary and the camps with their families to confront their pasts and say their prayers. While the occasionally graphic footage will disturb, this Oscar-winning film is one that should be shared with family as a way of educating and reminding us, "Never again." --Jenny Brown

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