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On the 31st January 2024, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, Eva Szepesi (born 1932) from Frankfurt spoke in the German Bundestag of her childhood and her family's suffering – as a survivor of the Holocaust and as an honoured guest. She and the other contemporary witnesses in this documentary – Alexandra Stimmer, Dora Zinger, Liesel Binzer, Aviva Goldschmidt, and Abraham Rozen - were children or teenagers during the Holocaust. How can their stories about surviving the Holocaust be preserved? A theatre project by Frankfurt pupils attempts exactly this: to bring something virtually unspeakable to the stage. Important in the course of this: a gentle handling of the deeply traumatic experiences – both for the survivors and for the young actors. According to filmmaker Nathaniel Knop, this project gives a voice to those who have been silent for a very long time: "The memory of the Shoah cannot remain only a memory, it has to be a continuous warning and an active part of our current awareness. The film is an attempt to keep this memory alive – not only by telling the survivors' stories but also through the encounter between the generations who have to deal with the memories of today and the responsibility for tomorrow". What is the remembrance culture worth to us in the context of the phrase: "Never again is now"? This documentary is an answer to this urgent question.

Source: 18. LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International