A TREASURE IN AUSCHWITZ

A young student, Yariv Nornberg, hears from an elderly vendor in a rundown shop a fantastic story about a Jewish treasure buried in Polish soil. His curiosity is aroused when he learns of the location of the hiding place - next to the infamous Auschwitz extermination camp. During the next 5 years, Yariv pursues these lost religious artifacts, hidden in the grounds of the Great Synagogue in the city of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in 1939. For him, these artifacts embody his own perished family and guide his attempt for a closure and acceptance of the Polish people, usually regarded by Jews as collaborators and anti-Semites.

Yariv manages to organize a unique archaeological excavation to unearth the treasure. But as the digging progresses, it becomes apparent that the synagogue's soil conceals a 60-year-old sinister secret and Yariv and his crew begin to lose hope.

Until one morning a shovel hits a metallic object in one of the ditches.

The search and excavation for the treasure translates within the film to a succession of poignant metaphors - to the Jewish existence in Poland and its annihilation, to the possibility of a dialog between the younger generations, to the capacity of Nazi evilness embodied in the presence of the nearby death camp and above all - to the growing sentiment that only 60 years have gone by and already WW2 and it's greatest nightmare - the Holocaust - is tragically transforming into an archaeological exhibit.

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[MelbourneMr]

The real "treasure" of the "holocaust" is the hundreds of billions of dollars that Israel has bled from Germany and the U.S.A. over the years.

[2hamboigahs]

jews digging for gold in their own cemetarys - need i say more? ok i will. kinda makes some of hitlers words ring true doesnt it! lol!

[polskich]

where is the rest of the film?

[ElocTheComrade]

Damn that old guy is ugly

[DMCDize]

@MelbourneMr U R RIGHT!

[theBURRITOmaniac]

@coinageboy what are you saying?

[silentobservor]

@Vercingetorixist Die Juden versuchten, sich zu verteidigen, wenn sie eine Chance (wie in den Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto - gab es auch Aufstände in den Konzentrationslagern) hatte. Aber die Nazis übernahmen die Kontrolle so schnell und wenn sie ein Land besetzt, nahmen sie das Geld vom Juden, so dass die Juden sich nicht leisten konnten Waffen.

[h4mmers3x]

@Vercingetorixist

Was willst du gegen Soldaten machen, die dich mit Waffen bedrohen?

[Vercingetorixist]

ich kann bis heute nicht verstehen warum die juden sich damals nicht gegen diese schweine gewehrt haben.woran lag es denn ,kann mir bitte einer diese frage beantworten?

[TalBiene]

Die Exponate aus der Großen Synagoge von Oswiecim, die so spät wiedr ausgegraben wurden, kann man im jüdischen Museum dort sehen.