Bardejov (2024)

Directed by

Danny A. Abeckaser

Genre

history, war

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

12

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1942, a Jewish community leader in a Slovakian town learns that young Jewish women are to be deported to a supposed work camp that is actually Auschwitz. He works with the local Jewish council to develop a plan to save the women by making them appear too sick to travel.

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What happens

Bardejov is a 2024 American historical war film written by Shmuel Lynn, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and starring Robert Davi and Abeckaser. Based on a true story, Bardejov reveals the daring plan devised by Rafuel Lowy (played by Robert Davi), a successful wine-maker and community leader, to save the young women of Bardejov from being included in the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz by injecting them with typhus. On a peaceful morning in 1942, the Jews of Bardejov were awoken by the sound of thunderous drumming. It was the Young Hlinka Guards––Slovakian Nazi collaborators––who plastered the town with posters announcing a Nazi work order: Every Jew must report to work. No exceptions. Lowy meets with the Bardejov Jewish Council to discuss their next course of action. Shortly thereafter, more posters are put up with new orders: All Jewish girls will be deported for work in a shoe factory in the East. No exceptions. Lowy gathers the Council to devise a way to keep their girls home, or keep them safe while working in the shoe factory. But, as they soon learn, there is no shoe factory. The girls were going to be deported to Auschwitz. With time running out, and mounting suspicion from the Hlinka, Lowy and his community devise a plan to save their girls: to smuggle a vial of Typhus into Bardejov and infect the girls, with hopes of forcing a quarantine before imminent deportation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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