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A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL: Three Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

Directed By: Elka Nikolova / 55 Minutes
USA, Bulgaria / 2020 / English
Documentary / Biography; Drama
Territory Rights: WORLD-WIDE, USA, CANADA (English), CANADA (French), ASIA, EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, ISRAEL, EDUCATIONAL, NON-THEATRICAL
Exhibition Format: DCP, Prores/QT

Option for Live Appearance: Q&A
Name of guest: Elka Nikolova
Role of guest: Director/Producer/Editor

Original Title: A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL: Three Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

Synopsis

A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL is an eye-opening portrait of three Bulgarian Jews – Chaim Zemach, a cellist; Robert Bakish, an engineer; and Misha Avramoff, a social worker on the Lower East side of Manhattan in New York – as they struggle to place their unusual experiences during World War II into the more common narrative of the Shoah. When in March 1943 the Bulgarian pro Nazi government cancelled the imminent deportation of the entire Bulgarian Jewish community of 48,000, Chaim, Robert and Misha were children and young adults. They only grasped how close they came to death after they arrived in New York and learned the fate of millions of European Jews. This realization has left them questioning the value of their stories and to debate whether they are true Holocaust “survivors.”

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