The Touch of an Angel

This creative documentary tells the personal story of Henryk Schönker, a Jew from the emblematic town of Oświęcim – Auschwitz. The deaf Jew from Tel Aviv explores many crucial, previously unknown facts and figures and mesmerises the viewer with his extraordinary energy. In 1939, his father was the chairman of the Jewish community, whose task was to organise the Bureau of Emigration of Jews to Palestine at the behest of the German military authorities several months before the idea of the creation of the Auschwitz Camp. For this journey into the past the director combines short, silent impressions with imaginative staging and newly styled use of archival material. He re-creates copyrighted, archival realities by using real actors and Oświęcim’s own inhabitants. The artistic language of the film escorts the contemporary viewer through the journey of the six years during World War II.