I Will Survive: Dancing

This clip complements the previous two clips in the series ’I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz.’ In June 2009, I, together with my father, my four children and niece, travelled to Poland to retrace my parents’ past. While on a cattle wagon at Radagost Station in Lodz, my father experiences flashbacks. He reenacts the memory of his three-day journey in a similar cattle wagon, heading to Auschwitz, 65 years earlier, and appears to enter a trancelike state. In his native tongue, he carries on an improvised di