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Tom Gedalia (Tom Kunstler) - "The Letter" [film]

In this film, he talks of his experiences at a concentration camp, detailing the atrocities committed. He speaks of horrific “games” those in charge would play, such as forcing prisoners to jump from cliffs to their death. He reads a letter written by a wife to her husband, which reveals how she, as many other Jewish people did, chose to overdose on sleeping pills rather than be taken to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis.

He describes the horrors of the camp: how 122,776 people were killed; how the jail cells were used to question prisoners of war, few of whom survived the interrogation; how people were tortured and their dead bodies mutilated; and how the gas chambers took 20 minutes to kill its occupants, a slow death that was both physically and mentally agonizing. Gedalia tells of how his wife and children were killed in a gas chamber, as he imagines what it would have been like to be with them as they died.

Kunstler, Tom