On Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 7:30 pm, Cong. Rinat Yisrael Adult Education Program presents the acclaimed and gripping film, “Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis.” The film will be introduced and moderated by its producer and director, Gaylen Ross.
HERO OR TRAITOR? Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1,700 Jews on a train to Switzerland, and may have saved tens of thousands more. Yet, Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel, accused as a collaborator in a trial that divided a nation and forever stamped as the “man who sold his soul to the devil.” Kasztner was assassinated by Jewish right wing extremists in Tel Aviv in 1957. The Israeli Supreme Court overturned the verdict one year later.
Director Gaylen Ross investigates this tale of murder, intrigue, and heroism through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner’s assassin, Ze’ev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner’s daughter, Zsuzsi.
“A comprehensive and profound film” Haaretz
“See this documentary on the strange and compelling life and death of one of the most morally complex figures to come out of the Holocaust” LA Times
Admission at the door: $7/person
Congregation Rinat Yisrael is located at 389 W. Englewood Ave.,Teaneck, NJ. For questions, call 201-837-2795.
