The movie
Süskind
During WWII, a member of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam finds a way to spare children from deportation to the death camps.
Length: 118 min
Country: France Israël, The Netherlands
Language spoken: Dutch, German
Language subtitles: Dutch
Cast: Jeroen Spitzenbergen, Golda de Leon, Karl Markovics, Katja Herbers, Tygo Gernandt, Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Ramsey Nasr, Olga Zuyderhoek, Hans Croiset, Peter Post, Rudolf Lucieer, George Remes, Erich Krieg
Director: Rudolf van den Berg
Release date: 30/08/2024
Description
The film is based on the true story of Walter Süskind (1906 -1945), a German Jew who helped about 600 Jewish children escape the Holocaust. He worked with Henriette Henriques Pimentel, Felix Halverstad and Johan van Huls, to gather children who were not registered and smuggle them out of Amsterdam. Around 600 children were saved. In 1944, Süskind, his wife and his daughter were sent to the Westerbork transit camp. All three perished, the wife and daughter in a concentration camp, Suskind himself on a death march.
