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Why six million?
The film that dares to re-examine the most sacred number for us
Six million, as sung by the snake fish, is the most charged number there is, causing everyone to stand still.
But who decided that six million Jews were actually murdered in the Holocaust?
The film by David Fischer, the son of Holocaust survivors himself, dares to follow the answer, and provides a thought-provoking, exciting and even entertaining experience.
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Avner Shavit
Saturday, 25 September 2021, 20:16 Updated: 22:51
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A cigar is sometimes just a cigar, but a number is never just a number. Just last weekend, for example, a discussion developed on Twitter around foreign basketball players who came to Israel and asked for the number 88 on their uniforms, until they were explained the problematic - the combination of these numbers looks like HH, meaning "Hale Hitler". Gianluigi Buffon, Italy's top goalkeeper, last year sparked outcry among the local Jewish community when he chose this particularly sensitive pairing.
Even more than 88, six million is a charged number - "the largest number to date, which illustrates the disaster, is that when you say it every sane person goes doomed", as the snake fish used to sing. This is true, of course, only with regard to Israeli culture. American television did not hesitate to call the series starring Steve Austin "The Six Million Dollar Man." In Israel, on the other hand, she was simply called "the man worth millions."
This is a sacred number in our districts, it is clear.
The only question left, if any, is why exactly six million.
Who decided and when, that this is the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust?
It is also clear that these are not data from CBS, and it is also clear that whatever the exact number is not round.
"Round number" fresh documentary film by David Fisher, dare to travel in search of answers. The film was first screened at the Jerusalem Festival last month, Currently on display at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and will soon air on HOT 8, and definitely worth watching.The veteran and trusted director always provides an exciting, thought-provoking intellectual experience and despite the theme, even entertaining.
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Hardly believe.
Gabriel Bach in "The Round Number" (Photo: Lee Heiman)
It's rare to see academics as cultural heroes, but Fisher's film gives them the respect, and they manage to shine but also be funny. Prominent among them are Prof. Hava Jablonoka and Prof. Yehuda Bauer, winner of the Israel Prize who does not circle corners - the number six million, the renowned researcher declares, is nothing but a myth, and if anyone sees in his words a shattering of a sacred cow, 93 ", adds the historian, discovered only praised his sense of humor." what others are saying interests me like zebras in Africa. "
Interestingly, this number began fixating before the end of the war, just like another myth - that which the Nazis made soap from Jews, and it Maybe someone else will make a movie in the future
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We will never know how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, and we never had a chance to know.
The reason for this, as the film points out, is related to the true universal tragedy about any genocide: the murderers do not count the murdered, literally, and therefore there are no neat records about them or even anything close to it.
Six million or six million and two?
(Photo: Lee Hyman)
Fischer also interviews Gabriel Bach, who was a member of Eichmann's prosecution team - the same team that drowned the most famous rhetorical use of six million. The veteran jurist is so shocked by Bauer's position that he refuses to believe he did say it. Other interviewees do not revolt against the very shattering of the myth, but ask the director - why he actually does it, and why it is important, and this is a good question that accompanies the film throughout the viewing.
Fisher, it should be noted, is the son of Holocaust survivors, and the memory of the war affected them to such an extent that he would always say that for him, there were not six million victims but six million and two more. The family heritage has been documented in the past in several films. The first of these, "Love List", was particularly exciting and I will never forget watching it.
Throughout the film, we watch Fisher on his parents' grave, chatting with his brother Ronel (yes, that one).
The brother carries a sharpened and interesting monologue, and among other things provides the following explanation: Since the director is unable to deal with the emotional heritage of the Holocaust, and no one can, he deals with the only thing that can still be dealt with, technical trifles.
Technical trifles or questions that must be asked?
From "The Round Number" (Photo: Lee Hyman)
David Fischer himself, for his part, provides a different explanation: Among the stories he heard from his parents, the story of the blind obedience of the Jews before and during World War II stood out, and he swore in response that he would never go quietly with the herd.
The insistence on not taking anything for granted, then, is not a violation of the memory of the Holocaust, but quite the opposite: the realization of its lessons.
The trouble is, of course, that even this intellectual and moral imperative can be taken in different and strange directions.
When filming the movie, Fisher could not have imagined that vaccine opponents would use this important legacy to kill themselves and others, but that too is a topic for another movie.
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