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...nearly a quarter of a century later, still raises deep and bitter passions. More than half of the 12 million who died in concentration camps were Jews-and both the fact and manner of their deaths have since haunted their fellow Jews around the world. In a new book, Treblinka, a French Jew named Jean-François Steiner, 28, has raised a storm in France by suggesting that many of them died because they were too cowardly to fight back...
Steiner, whose father died in a concentration camp, is a journalist who worked on Jean-Paul Sartre's Temps Modernes and the pro-Gaullist weekly Nouveau Candide before beginning his book. Treblinka takes its title from the death camp 50 miles northeast of Warsaw, where some 700,000 Jews were gassed, shot, hanged or beaten to death. Steiner interviewed 15 of the 40 survivors of Treblinka now living in Israel, used fictional techniques to reconstruct the life and sudden death of the in- mates. The book's high point is the revolt...
Producers Benjamin and Lawrence Rothman have pointedly avoided the customary chamber-of-horrors approach in their documentary history of the Polish Jews. There are no closeups of bulldozers pushing bodies into mass graves, no shots of the prisoners of Treblinka and Auschwitz. The narra tor, Theodore Bikel, never raises his voice a decibel above conversational level. Instead, with a rare collection of stills and film clips, the movie quietly tells the history of Jewish life in Poland, a history that took a millennium to evolve and four years to be obliterated...
...death in the gas chambers. Father Riccardo Fontana (Jeremy Brett) is a Jesuit serving with the papal nuncio in Berlin when a distracted SS lieutenant bursts into an afternoon tea and begins a semihysterical recital of the statistical horrors of the "factories of death for people" at Treblinka and Belzec. "I'm sorry . . . why must you come to me?" says the nuncio in visible dismay, advising the SS man to see Herr Hitler. But Father Riccardo is heartstricken and is positive that Pius will protest as soon as he knows...
...returned, to Auschwitz, to Treblinka, when "the operation was in full swing. I was not near enough to see what was going on but, nevertheless, I saw the bridges, and on the bridges, I saw a file of naked Jews entering a big hall to be gassed...