Reference Type: Audiovisual Material
Author: Velvel Gutman
Year: 2000
Title: Monuments of Soap
Type: Documentary
Short Title: Monuments of Soap
Size/Length: 33'
Keywords: Jewish minority, Holocaust
Abstract: Romanian Holocaust survivor Lupu Gutman has resurrected the horror story of Nazi ghoulishness in a documentary. In it, European graveyards are visited where RIF (an abbreviation for "Reichsstelle für industrielle Fettversorgung" (Reich office for the supply of industrial fats), a state agency that controlled the distribution of fat and fatty acids for non-alimentary use in wartime. The acronym was misread in the ghettos as an abbreviation for "Reines Juden-Fett" (pure Jewish fat) soap had been buried under the pretense that it had been made from the bodies of murdered Jews. Belief in this canard still persists in those who are still cling to their hatred.
URL: http://db.yadvashem.org/films/item.html?language=en&itemId=4437390
Access Date: 27.09.2014
Name of Database: The Visual Center - Online Film Database
Database Provider: Yad Vashem
Language: English