Rent Saving Bardejov from Auschwitz (2024)

So-so low budget film about Slovakia 1942 & attempted round-up of Jewish women to send to Auschwitz - Saving Bardejov from Auschwitz review by PV

This is worth watching esp for anyone interested in stories of WWII and the Holocaust. This has a specific focus on Jews living in Czechslovakia - now Slovakia. Indeed, it features the first Jews send to the new Birkenau camp at Auschwitz in 1942.

The local Jews hatch a plan to save their women and girls from being sent away by cattle truck - no spoilers.

The end of the film features the producer (who funded the film and a centre in New York) Emil A Fish whose parents/mother feature in the story, I think - a little documentary epilogue at the end explains things and what the town is like now. The film starts with a prologue documentary snippet too.

Not a major film, a minor one, and low budget but worth watching. 3 stars.

Lots of previews for low budget movies from the same film company before the film starts - 5 I think - but thankfully one can fast-forward through them.