(You Are Free)
US (1983): Documentary/Short
The pain and sorrow of the Nazi concentration camps become a human reality in this powerful film about the camps' liberation. Focusing on the personal remembrances of four American soldiers who participated in the liberation of the death camps and a woman who survived several years of internment, You Are Free combines personal stories with archival footage of the Holocaust to record the horror and human compassion of the time.
The participants include Rabbi Herschel Schacter, who served as a chaplain in the U.S. Third Army; Dr. Leon Bass, a former staff sergeant; John Connors, one of the first American soldiers to enter the concentration camps; and intelligence agent Kurt Klein and his wife, Gerda, whom he met when he helped free her and the group of women with whom she was imprisoned. Describing their thoughts and feelings during those days, and for many years after, these five individuals offer and invaluable account of an extraordinary moment in history. (Direct Cinema Limited)
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· Documentary (Short Subjects) 1983: Dea Brokman & Ilene Landis - Producers
