Ver Vet Blaybn ( Who Will Remain ) Official Trailer
Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfathers diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival of the Holocaust. Sutzkever (19132010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poetdescribed by the New York Times as the greatest poet of the Holocaustwhose verse drew on his youth in Siberia and Vilna, his spiritual and material resistance during World War II, and his postwar life in the State of Israel. Kalderon, whose native language is Hebrew and must rely on translation of her grandfathers work, is nevertheless determined to connect with what remains of the poets bygone world and confront the personal responsibility of preserving her grandfathers literary legacy. Woven into the documentary are family home videos, newly recorded interviews, and archival recordings, including Sutzkevers testimony at the Nuremberg Trial. Recitation of his poetry and personal reflections on resisting Nazi forces as a partisan fighter
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