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Meeting With The Father

Maria Kampf is on a train for her last prison visit to her father Ivan, a Nazi criminal, one of the last Soviet death row inmates. In intimate dialogues in the compartment and hotel, she mentions the biography of her father and the circumstances of his crime - involvement in the murder of more than 816 Jews in Ivano-Frankivsk near Zhytomyr during World War II. At the same time, Rachel Kachanovska, a Jew from the same village who managed to survive, remembers these events half a century ago.

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Maria Kampf is on a train for her last prison visit to her father Ivan, a Nazi criminal, one of the last Soviet death row inmates. In intimate dialogues in the compartment and hotel, she mentions the biography of her father and the circumstances of his crime - involvement in the murder of more than 816 Jews in Ivano-Frankivsk near Zhytomyr during World War II. At the same time, Rachel Kachanovska, a Jew from the same village who managed to survive, remembers these events half a century ago.

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