The Lost Names of Lithuania from MDK Associates on Vimeo.
The Lost Names of Lithuania from MDK Associates on Vimeo.
Direct link to the film: https://vimeo.com/392266976
Tour (June 2019) to unveil the memorial in Astravas grove in the Pakamponys forest outside Birzai/Birzh in Lithuania to the 2400 Jews who were murdered there in August 1941. The film is made by Michael Kretzmer and Danielle Lockwood (Kretzmer) about the work of Abel and Glenda Levitt, former South Africans living in Kfar Saba in Israel and others involved. The documentary begins in a forest outside Plunge/Plungian where the Levitts began their work and then moves to Birzai. We were about 50 on the tour from Israel, South Africa, Europe, the UK, the US and Canada. Benny Rabinowitz from Cape Town was the local patron and chief donor. Dr Joseph Rabie from Paris designed the memorial in Birzai.