Watch The Last of the Unjust

Set in 1975 Rome, this is a documentary about the holocaust. However, it offers a unique point of view. It is a series of interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein. He was the last president of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. He was the only elder in the ghetto that survived the holocaust. He is known to have helped over a hundred thousand Jews flee the country. His efforts saved the ghetto. The elder Rabbi provides a unique point of view to the events that occurred during World War II. The director, Claude Lanzmann was eighty-seven at the time that this was filmed. He provides a wonderful backdrop, in filming on location at Theresienstadt, for the interviews. It is provides an interesting look at the Jewish Councils that existed during the war and the role that they played in history.