Chris Nicola is
an explorer and investigator. He
was mapping out the largest cave system in the Ukraine when he discovered
evidence that five Jewish families lived in these caves. Thirty-eight Ukrainian Jews survived the
Holocaust by living underground for 18 months. They were originally in a different cave system but the
Germans came in and took five of the people away. The others were able to escape and they knew they needed to
be much smarter in order to survive.
They constructed a series of carefully hidden escape routes. They were always hungry, constantly searching
and in need of food and water.
Esther Stermer
wrote a memoir that was published in 1975 of their experiences in the
caves. There are interviews with
the survivors and reenactments of the events. This story could have been lost to history except for the
discovery by American Chris Nicola.
He found cooking utensils, buttons, shoes and other items left
behind. Slightly confusing with the back and forth between the real
survivors and the reenactments. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
83
min, Doc directed by Janet Tobias with Yetta, Cliff, Saul and Sam Stermer,
Sonia and Sima Dodyk, Sol Wexler, Chris Nicola, Erin Grunstein Halpern, Katalin
Laban, Peter Balazs Kiss, Daniel Hegedus, Fruzsina Pelikan.
Note: Blockbuster 3*, imdb 6.1 out of 10, 77%
critic 83% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
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