Reference Type: Audiovisual Material
Author: Zoltan Terner
Year: 1996
Title: Transnistria - The Hell
Type: Documentary
Short Title: Transnistria - The Hell
Size/Length: 41'
Keywords: Jewish minority, Holocaust, Documentary
Abstract: The designation "Transnistria" is an artificial geographic term, created in WWII; it refers to the part of the Ukraine conquered by German and Romanian forces in the summer of 41, which Hitler handed to Romania as a reward for its participation in the war against the Soviet Union. Jews who were expulsed from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and North Moldavia were gathered in hundreds of Camps and Ghettos Transnistria. Amongst the 150,000 Rumanian Jews who were expulsed to Transnistria, about 90,000 died from starvation, coldness and diseases. This film, which was produced following an investigation of Ariela Ringle-Hoffman published by "Yediot Hachronot" daily newspaper, deals with the Holocaust in the Romania, the silence of the survivors and the tendency of the Rumanian written press and the historiography to dissimulate the part of the Rumanians and Antonescu in the collaboration with the Nazis. The film was awarded the Silver Medal in the categories of History and Society at the Film Festival of New York for the year 1996. (A copy with inserted sub-titles translated in English: V 2057/B). Participants: Aharon Appelfeld, Survivor and Writer Ester Gelbelman, Survivor Itzak Yalon, Survivor Izik Michael, Survivor Sonia Palti, Survivor Beno Friedel, Survivor and Painter Dr. Paul Kirmaier, Survivor Meir Sheffi, Survivor Dr. Shmuel Ben-Zion, Survivor and Historian Dr. Leon Volowitz, The Investigation Center of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew University Dr. Dalia Ofer, The Hebrew University Itzak Artzi, Former Member of Parliament and eyewitness of the year 1943.
URL: http://db.yadvashem.org/films/item.html?language=en&itemId=4018647
Access Date: 30.09.2014
Name of Database: The Visual Center - Online Film Database
Database Provider: Yad Vashem
Language: Hebrew, English