Broken Promise

Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.

• based on novel or book
• holocaust (shoah)
• world war ii
• jew persecution
• czechoslovakia
• bratislava, slovakia
• based on true story
• antisemitism
• holocaust (shoah) survivor
• based on memoir or autobiography
• nazi collaborationism
• jewish culture
• jewish family
• concentration camp survivor
• slovakia