The Last of the Unjust

Streaming video - 2014

In Rome in 1975, 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, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto. In 2012, Claude Lanzmann, at 87 – exhumes these interviews shot in Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town “given to the Jews by Hitler”, a so-called model ghetto, but a ghetto of deceit chosen by Adolf Eichmann to dupe the... world. Nominated for a **César Award** for Best Documentary Film. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"Another demanding and deeply rewarding investigation into the Holocaust from documentarian Claude Lanzmann." - Rob Nelson, **Variety*** more