TOLDOT HA'MENUTZACHIM

In 1945 Michla, the director's grandmother, was waiting in Łódź for her brother Feivush, supposedly the only other member of the Schwarz family to have survived the Holocaust. But "Feiv'ke" never came. Instead he changed his name to Peter Schwarz and made a new life for himself in the town of Schlieben, Brandenburg, a place where the Nazis had once built a forced labour camp. The barracks are now used as one-family houses and after the war Schwarz decided to stay, "out of love" as is claimed in the town today. He became a fully integrated member of society, worked as a trading organisation sales director and even played football with his former guards. A search for evidence of a past characterised by sorrow, tolerance and suppression.