As Arnon Goldfinger’s new documentary, “The Flat,” opens, the filmmaker and his family are cleaning out the Tel Aviv apartment of his German-born grandmother, where she lived for decades until her death at 98. What for most families would be an emotional but uneventful process takes a sharp turn for the Goldfingers, however, as they find photographs and newspaper articles that reveal a disturbing, previously unknown chapter in the family’s past.
Goldfinger’s grandparents, who never quite blended into Israeli society, retained close ties not only to the country of their birth, but also to a German couple whose unsettling identity is revealed early in the film. The discovery sparks a five-year journey that Goldfinger records with his camera, slowly uncovering the story for himself, his mother and the world.
Israeli grandma’s shocking WWII secrets revealed in ‘The Flat’ | The Times of Israel
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