Survivors speak of being shunned by outsiders who did And a different kind of suffering awaited those who recovered their physical stamina. Others succumbed to disease and exhaustion. Some ate so ravenously that their stomachs ruptured. The film scenes accompanying this description are raw and startling, like one that shows the starved ex-prisoners rioting over a truckload of potatoes. Own shame, and of how much unexpected anger surrounded their liberation.
(Other actors, among them Edward Asner, Miriam Margolyes and Martin Landau, are heard reading from diaries and letters.) Survivors talk of how the soldiers' horror triggered their "Few are prepared for the hell they encounter," says Morgan Freeman, theįilm's narrator, with dignity and compassion. Along the way, Harris creates an intense empathy for the refugees' experience and for aspects of their ordeal that are often ignored.Įarly in the film, shocking scenes of survivors at the camps are accompanied by a description of the liberating soldiers' reaction to what they saw. Later, emphasizing the profound connection between these events. Normously powerful archival scenes punctuate the Holocaust documentary "The Long Way Home," giving an intimate dimension to the film's historical drama.įrankly Zionist in its sympathies, Mark Jonathan Harris's stirring and accomplished film spans the period from the liberation of Nazi concentration camp survivors in 1945 to the founding of Israel as a Jewish homeland three years SeptemA Road From Auschwitz to Israel By JANET MASLIN
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