In this podcast, June Butler talks to director Gerry Gregg about his film Condemned to Remember in which Irish Holocaust Survivor Tomi Reichental celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin Mosque and embarks on an epic journey across a Europe in turmoil.
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About Condemned to Remember
The follow-up film to Close to Evil sees Irish Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental embark on another epic journey. In Eastern Europe, he confronts the ‘crisis of shame’ that prevents an honest reckoning with the scale of local ‘collusion’ with the Nazi extermination project. In Bosnia, Tomi embraces Muslim survivors of a genocide, who still search for the bones of their loved ones. Along the way he puts himself into the shoes of the ‘new Jews’ and discovers a strong common bond with refugees fleeing the hell that is Syria.
Gerry Gregg
Gerry is a documentary filmmaker, director & producer whose films include Condemned to Remember (2017), following Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental; Storm Front in Mayo (2019), uncovering Ireland's role in the D-Day forecast; Ireland's Dirty Laundry (2022), examining the history of Ireland's religious laundries; and Face Down (2023), investigating the IRA kidnapping and murder of Thomas Niedermayer. Gerry has built a career in journalism, reporting on political, social & historical issues.
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