The Book of Curses .The Diary of Benjamin Berkovich

Yuri Gorulev
Israel, Belarus
2018

68 min

Russian

Artdoc rating

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In 2005, the diary of Beniamin Berkovich, one of the prisoners of the Novogrudok ghetto in Belarus, was found in the archives of the Jewish Institute in Warsaw. Before the liquidation of the ghetto, the author of the diary handed it over to his pre-war Pole acquaintance and asked him to save it. During the repatriation after the war, at the risk to the family, Romuald Pelyakhovsky (that was the name of the Pole), secretly took the diary to Poland and handed it over to the Jewish Historical Institute. Michael Kagan, an Israeli engineer, and Tamara Vershitskaya, director of the Novogrudok Historical Museum, are following in the footsteps of Berkovich's fate. The authors of the film reveal another page from the history of the Holocaust on the territory of Belarus and try to explore the attitude of different generations of Israeli Jews to anti-Semitism and revenge issues in today's conditions.

Authors

Yuri Gorulev

Film crew

Director: Yuri Gorulev
Screen writer: Yuri Gorulev
Operator: Alexander Lavysh
Producer: Tamara Vershitskaya, Michael Kagan
Composer: Yuri Valmus
Sound producer: Viktor Krasnov

MOVIE ABOUT

Theme: History, War, Holokost
Country: Israel, Belarus
Languages: Russian