FILM: Flucht einer jüdischen Familie: UNTERWEGS ALS SICHERER ORT

In the organizer's words:

ON THE ROAD AS A SAFE PLACE

D: Dietrich Schubert | Germany 1997 | German version | 92 min.

Admission 7 | 5 Euro (reduced), Tickets: Box Office only

The documentary follows the escape and life of the Jewish Finkelgruen family and focuses on the little-known persecution of Jews by the Nazis outside Europe, which reached as far as Shanghai in China. The film not only provides moving memories of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and the attempts of Gestapo officials to persuade their Asian allies to exterminate the 30,000 Jews living there, but also material for criticizing the way the Nazi past was dealt with in the post-war period.

In his search for historical clues, Cologne-based writer Peter Finkelgruen is also interested in tracking down the murderer of his grandfather, former SS supervisor Anton Malloth, and bringing him to justice. At the time the film was shot, the perpetrator was still living undisturbed in a Munich retirement home and receiving welfare benefits, even though the murder was on record and Malloth had been sentenced to death in Czechoslovakia after the war.

Guests: Peter Finkelgruen (contemporary witness and author), Cologne,
Dietrich Schubert (director) & Katharina Schubert (producer), both from Kronenburg

The film screening is part of the accompanying program of the extended exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War". see also: https://begleitprogramm.3www2.de/

In cooperation with: FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.; Köln im Film e.V.; HaGalil e.V.; GERMANIA JUDAICA - Kölner Bibliothek zur Geschichte des Deutschen Judentums e. V.

Price information:

Admission 7 | 5 euros (reduced), tickets: Box Office only