THE MAN ON THE BALCONY

Rudolf Gelbard, an Austrian whose youth was defined by the Holocaust, relates the effects of Hitler’s 1938 rise to power and the subsequent persecution of the Jews from the point of view of the child he was at the time. Subsequently imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp, he was one of fewer than 200 survivors from among the 15,000 children who passed through the camp. Revisiting familiar sites, Gelbard gives first-person witness to events including Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, which resulted in the burning of Vienna’s largest synagogue. Presented in cooperation with the Consulate General of Austria, Chicago. In German with English subtitles. DVCAM video. (BS)