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Published: 26 February 2009

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DIRECTOR Gaylen Ross will be at the Tricycle in Kilburn next week to unveil her documentary Killing Kasztner.
The film tells the story of Israel Kasztner, who rescued more than 1,600 Hungarian Jews from the Nazis by negotiating directly with Adolf Eichmann.
Yet this incredible feat was cast as an act of betrayal by many, who saw Kasztner as a collaborator.
Kasztner moved to Israel after the war and faced such accusations.
He fought a libel case against the media who dubbed him “the man who sold his soul to the devil,” and was tragically killed in Tel Aviv in 1957.
Gaylen Ross has taken an emotive subject and looked at it with a clear head and without prejudice.
Screened as part of the 2009 UK Jewish Film Festival, it will include a post-film discussion with the director and Sussex University’s Professor Ladislaus Lob, who wrote Dealing with Satan: Rezso Kasztner’s Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews.
• The screening is on Thursday, March 5 at 7.30pm. Price £20.

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