Her family hid for three years on a farm, before being denounced and deported to Theresienstadt in April 1942.ĭuring the winter of 1943, Ruth discovered that she was pregnant. Ruth Elias was 17 years old in March 1939, when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia. The first part of this documentary is dedicated to Ruth Elias, born in Czechoslovakia, she recalls her internment in Theresienstadt: He puts into perspective these stories filmed thirty years ago in order to understand the processes set up by the Nazi regime and their collaborators to commit the genocide of the Jews.
He returns to the fate of Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Paula Biren, and Hanna Marton: four women who experienced the horror of the Holocaust. June 3: Le Serment d’Hippocrate, Ruth EliasĬlaude Lanzmann interviewed them while filming Shoahand decided to dedicate a film to each of them.
To make this film, Lanzmann drew on the impressive amount of images and recordings left behind from Shoah, and gathered testimonies from four survivors. (Film in English with French subtitles) From June 3 to 6, 2019, join us at the Cinémathèque Québécoise for the screening of Claude Lanzmann’s four-part documentary, Four Sisters.
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