Among blind fools

Authors:Martin Šmok (Director), Petr Bok

Summary:Summary from press release web site: A three-part film "documenting the life and activities of Michael Weissmandl, brilliant orthodox rabbi from Slovakia, who rescued thousands of Slovak Jews during the Holocaust by devising various rescue schemes, including bribing top Nazi and Slovak officials. Known among the religious Jews for his work in the field of mystical equidistant letter sequences, at the time of WW II Weissmandl was a spiritual leader of the "Working Group", an illegal Jewish body that co-ordinated majority of the underground activities in Slovakia while operating within the framework of the legal Jewish Council. It was the work of the "Working Group" that ultimately led to much more publicized negotiations of Rudolf Kasztner with the SS in Hungary. Using unique testimonies of the last eye-witnesses, archival film sources from Central and Eastern Europe and materials from private archives, for the first time ever the fate of the "Working Group" will be properly documented."