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Permission to Remember
Moshe Margalit was born in Ludmir, Ukraine. He was 9 -years-old when World War II started. Steven Wermchok currently lives in Ludmir. He was 8-years-old when the war started. Wermchok was honored by Yad Vashem as a “Righteous Gentile” for rescuing 50 Jews from Ludmir, but Margalit was convinced that Wermchok never saved any Jews. Now he, along with other Holocaust survivors, will wage a battle against Yad Vashem in order to get Wermchok’s title annulled.
Festivals and Awards:
Special Mention - Haifa International Film Festival, Israel, 2002; Jewish Film Festival, New York, 2005
Director: Yael Kipper Zarezky
Producer: Yael Shavit, Assaf Amir
Cinematographer: Oded Kimchi
Editor: Bat Sheva Yanko, Sara Salomon
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, NOGA Communications - Channel 8, Makor Foundation
Script: Yael Kipper Zarezky, Ronen Zarezky
Distributor: IsraeliFilms
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: רשות הזיכרון
Moshe Margalit was born in Ludmir, Ukraine. He was 9 -years-old when World War II started. Steven Wermchok currently lives in Ludmir. He was 8-years-old when the war started. Wermchok was honored by Yad Vashem as a “Righteous Gentile” for rescuing 50 Jews from Ludmir, but Margalit was convinced that Wermchok never saved any Jews. Now he, along with other Holocaust survivors, will wage a battle against Yad Vashem in order to get Wermchok’s title annulled.
Festivals and Awards:
Special Mention - Haifa International Film Festival, Israel, 2002; Jewish Film Festival, New York, 2005
Director: Yael Kipper Zarezky
Producer: Yael Shavit, Assaf Amir
Cinematographer: Oded Kimchi
Editor: Bat Sheva Yanko, Sara Salomon
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, NOGA Communications - Channel 8, Makor Foundation
Script: Yael Kipper Zarezky, Ronen Zarezky
Distributor: IsraeliFilms
Subtitles: English, Hebrew
Film Name in Hebrew: רשות הזיכרון