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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 23 August 2007

Pick of the Indies

I HAVE Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Weisenthal (Screen on the Hill, Haverstock Hill) is an insightful documentary which presents a portrait of the man who spent his life to fighting for justice for the six million people who died in the Holocaust.
Director Richard Trank pulls together interviews with people who worked with Weisenthal and has scoured the archives for footage of the man who brought mass killers such as Adolf Eichmann to justice.
The film explains how Weisenthal became a Nazi hunter. When the camp he was in was liberated, he noticed soldiers interrogating camp guards.
He sat in on the proceedings, and then drew up a detailed document outlining the names, ranks and crimes of some of the guards he had come across.
During the war he had been moved across Europe, from slave-labour camps to concentration camps, which gave him a wide knowledge of the extent of Nazi atrocities.
He was a witness at the Nuremberg Trials, which led to him establishing his war crimes bureau in Vienna, a job he dedicated his life to.
The film discusses his legacy: it can be found at the International Court in the Hague, which sits in permanent session and ensures that today, those who commit genocide know justice awaits.
This moving and at times disturbing film outlines exactly why.
DAN CARRIER

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