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Spell Your Name (2006)

Spell Your Name (2006)

Drama Documentary
Release Date: 2006, September 1
Directors: Serhii Bukovskyi
Countries: Ukraine, United States of America
Production: Plus Films, USC Shoah Foundation
Cast: Maryna Chaika

Overview:

he film is based on the testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust that were collected by The Visual Library Archive of USC Shoah Foundation. Director Sergey Bukovsky takes the viewer on a journey of discovery as he and several Ukrainian students absorb the testimony of Ukrainian people who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbors during the Holocaust. A collection of men and women share the details of their experiences, and we are afforded a glimpse of modern-day Ukraine: the ethnic stereotypes that continue to exist and the manner in which Post-Soviet society is dealing with the question of how to memorialize the sites where tens of thousands of Jewish families and others were executed and thrown into mass graves.

Keywords:

world war ii 1940s holocaust (shoah) massacre nazi occupation ukraine babyn yar massacre german forces