Title: The last of the unjust /
Authors: Lanzmann, Claude,; Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-1989; Cohen Media Group,; Video Services Corp.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Murmelstein, Benjamin, Interviews.; Murmelstein, Benjamin,; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Theresienstadt (Concentration camp); Jewish councils Czech Republic Terezín (Ústecký kraj); Holocaust survivors; Holocaust survivors; Jewish councils; Czech Republic Terezín (Ústecký kraj)
Abstract: 1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only Elder of the Jews not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country.