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Special award of merit in Intercom Chicago International Film Festival

Told from the angle of families of Holocaust survivors, the heroes of this film are respectable people who function socially and have rehabilitated their lives in an extraordinary way. But when the camera follows them in their everyday lives at home, the skeletons in the cupboard are revealed. We meet people who have lost their childhood in the Holocaust and in their old age continue to play with dolls, people whose nightmares bring abnormal behavior and others who have tried to commit suicide as a result of their deep guilt feeling at having survived. Most of them suppress and hide the past because of their shame and their wish to protect their children from knowing the horrors which haunt them. We discover how a part of Israeli society rejects the survivors, believing that the victims went like lambs to the slaughter. The existence of such a state of mind leads to confrontations within the family, some of the tragic results of which are shown in the film.
Here also, the second generation’s psychological state of mind is examined. They inherit a pattern of survivalism from their parents. Mostly because of tension in their home, they try to detach themselves from parents who are so obsessive about protecting their children. The film shows how this curse of the Holocaust is also inherited by the third generation who carry a survivalistic pattern of behavior from their parents and grandparents.

Duration: 60 Minutes

Directed and produced by: Yitzhak Rubin, Teknews