No Place On Earth
No Place On Earth is an 83-minute, English-language documentary from 2012.
The film was first shown on September 10, 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released on April 5, 2013 in US theaters. The ARD showed the documentation in a voice-over version on January 20, 2014.
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In 1942, the female head of the family, Esther Stermer, hid the members of her and other Jewish families in the Ozerna and Verteba caves in western Ukraine ( Ternopil Oblast / Borschtschiw Rajon ) to protect them from the Nazis . There were a total of 38 people.
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The researcher Christopher Nicola found remains of buttons and shoes during an expedition in 1993. His findings meant that the survivors could report about it and found faith. Janet Tobias filmed this story. The scenes were re-enacted in a re-enactment . Some survivors, who now mainly live in New York City and Montreal , visited the cave after 67 years with two grandchildren.
Web links
- No Place On Earth Official Website
- Sheldon Kirshner: An extraordinary story of Holocaust survival (English) The Canadian Jewish News, September 14, 2012
- Harriett Arkell: Astonishing bravery (English) Daily Mail online, April 5, 2013
- Howard Reich: The real stories behind 'No Place on Earth' (English) Chicago Tribune Online, April 18, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2343266/
- ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_place_on_earth/
- ^ No place to live ( Memento from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) daserste.de, accessed on January 21, 2014
- ↑ Tim Slagman: Holocaust documentary "No Place On Earth": The caves that protected from Hitler Spiegel online, May 10, 2013