DOCUMENTARIES A GRATIS GLOBAL SERVICE
⌕ SEARCH GRATIS GLOBAL ↗
DOCUMENTARIES
Life in Germany's Largest Jewish Retirement and Nursing Home
SOURCE: YOUTUBE · NO TRACKING UNTIL YOU PRESS PLAY · TROUBLE PLAYING? WATCH AT THE SOURCE ↗

Life in Germany's Largest Jewish Retirement and Nursing Home

26 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
RATE THIS

In Frankfurt am Main, the largest Jewish retirement and nursing home in Germany houses more than 170 residents, roughly three quarters of them Jewish, including Holocaust survivors who chose to grow old in the country that persecuted them. Eva Szepesi, 92, born in Budapest, survived Auschwitz as a child and lost her entire family; she now visits the home's daytime program every week and speaks in schools about what happened to her. Twenty Ukrainian refugees, among them Bella Kiselova and her daughter Marina, have also found shelter there, living alongside residents and a staff drawn from many nationalities, most of them non-Jewish. The film follows daily routines inside the home: Sabbath observance, communal celebrations, and quiet moments of commemoration, set against a wider climate of rising antisemitism. Interviews with residents and staff sit alongside footage of the building's activities and care programs, building a portrait of a community shaped by loss, routine, and unexpected continuity, where survival and old age share the same rooms.

At a glance

Film facts

Runtime compared with the other 2,383 Society films
Runtime26 m
Compared with SocietyShorter than 76%
Source channelDW Documentary (YouTube)
QA · not live