"The Last Days"
Not sure if its the fact that I am aging and having danced with death or perhaps I have learned about the importance of a sense of belonging; but I find myself yearning more and more to connect with my heritage.
So it was with some delight that I found this documentary on Netflix. Yet "delight" is a tremendously inappropriate word to use.
This documentary is, quite simply... Haunting... Moving... Poignant...
"The film traces the compelling experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Adolf Hitler’s brutal war against the Jews during the final days of World War II.
The film shares the remarkable stories of five people – a grandmother, a teacher, a businessman, an artist, and a U.S. congressman – as they return from the United States to their hometowns and to the ghettos and concentration camps that once imprisoned them.
Through the eyes of the survivors and other witnesses, including a former Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, The Last Days recounts one of the most brutal chapters of human history. But above all, The Last Days is a potent depiction of personal strength and courage, and a testament to the power of the human spirit.
My immediate family aren't Jewish. However, a sister of my paternal grandmother married into a Jewish family (in the 1930s I do believe).
