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There Once Was a Town [VHS]
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Narrated By Edward Asner
Recording label: Homevision EAN: 9780780023710Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 0780023714Number of items: 1Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Release Date: 2000-09-19Universal product code (UPC): 037429153635Number of discs: 1Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Description
In 1941, the German army invaded the small town of Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania) and brutally murdered nearly 3,500 Jewish residents. Fifty-six years after the massacre, There Once Was a Town chronicles the remarkable journey of four of
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"In order to understand the soul of a people, one must walk on their land and visit their shtetl," begins There Once Was a Town, a memorial to Eishyshok, Poland, a small town where 3,500 Jews were brutally murdered in 1941. Fifty-six years after the massacre, a bus load of survivors led by Israeli scholar Yaffa Eliach return "to awaken old memories and confront long-silenced ghosts." The documentary, partly based on Eliach's book There Once Was a World, does a perfect job re-creating the town in the time of Hitler and in following the survivors, whose stories can be wrenching to relive. The horrors (mass execution, parents killed in front of children, harrowing escapes) are counterbalanced by a joyful presentation of the rhythms of life of the town before the German army invaded. Fact-filled narration, nicely voiced by actor Ed Asner (a descendant of an Eishyshok family) helps weave together a rich collection of stills (Eliach's father was a town photographer) and historical and contemporary footage. Here, history truly comes alive; the dead are no longer statistics, but a close community of Jews who reveled in their lives. --Valerie J. Nelson
Running time: 90 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
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