Ghetto, brick factory, train station, mass graves
- 60 years later the neighbours of the Hungarian Jews remember. What did
they do and what could have been done? What did the bystanders see and what
do they believe they saw in their small town community during the last days
of World War II? The documentary Once They Were Neighbours is about
the present as much as it is about history: the shadows cast by the failure
to face the past during the last 60 years.
DVCAM, length: 65 min., 2005, Hungary
Hungarian with English subtitles (original title: Szomszédok
voltak)
"I don't like to talk about it. These are bad
memories."
"They were born here. They never thought they would ever leave."
"It was a topsy-turvy world... The average people could do nothing."
"We were quite close friends but still, they never told me anything
about
what had happened to them over there. I didn't ask, they didn't say..."
