Sabotage

On October 7th 1944, members of a special unit blew up Crematorium 4 in Birkenau and bravely attempted a spontaneous uprising against the SS, one none of them survived. Laszlo Nemes captured this episode of Jewish resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau in his feature film SON OF SAUL. In the documentary "Sabotage" we learn how the Jewish resistance in the camp was assisted for months by courageous Jewish resistance fighters who, whilst manufacturing weapons for the Germans, managed to smuggle gunpowder from the Union Werke factories they worked in. The then 16-year-old Anna Wajcblum and her older sister Estusia also belonged to the resistance and did not want to die without a fight. In this hybrid documentary, filmmaker Noa Aharoni allows survivor Anna Wajcblum to have her say and, through the many tenderly animated feature film scenes, gives a face to the murdered resistance fighters.

On 14.6. at 15:30 at Filmkunst66 director Noa Aharoni (SABOTAGE) will be present for a discussion after the films.
On 15.6. at 15:00 at Kino Krokodil, directors Tal Kantor (LETTER TO A PIG) and Noa Aharoni (SABOTAGE) will be present for a discussion after the films.