Memento

Memento

16 mins | Documentary | Feb. 16, 1966

A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported, murdered, perished; in Auschwitz or Theresienstadt. Commentary reminds us of the victims – "in 1933, 160,564 Jewish citizens lived in Berlin; in 1945, 3,500".

Memento

16 mins | Documentary | Feb. 16, 1966

Memento
A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported, murdered, perished; in Auschwitz or Theresienstadt. Commentary reminds us of the victims – "in 1933, 160,564 Jewish citizens lived in Berlin; in 1945, 3,500".
Producers DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
Original title Memento
Directors Karlheinz Mund
Writers Bodo Schulenberg, Karlheinz Mund, Günter Kunert

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