Killing Kasztner

Killing Kasztner: The Jew who Dealt with the Nazis is a feature-length theatrical documentary about Rudolf Kastner, and directed by Gaylen Ross.

[3] In June 2001, Ross was invited to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City to film the first conference on Kasztner in the United States.

Eckstein and the other conspirators served only 7 years of their life sentences, after being commuted on recommendation from Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

Zsuzsa accompanied by Michal and Merav later visited the graves of her parents, Kasztner and his wife to pay their respects.

Ross commented in an interview with Aviva Berlin:The film is very personal, very emotional in the portrayal of the families and survivors, and they were terribly candid and open in their view of what had happened to them over the years, and the effects of the trial and murder on their lives.

What was gratifying was to see how the audience respected the balance and understood, I believe, that I tried to show everyone in the film, pro or con Kasztner, with dignity and to allow their voices to be heard.

This information was not available to Judge Benjamin Halevi during the original trial in Israel; not available to Ben Hecht, author of Perfidy (book); not available to the world then.

[12] Alison Gang of the San Diego tribute wrote, "It’s one thing when a documentary tells a story that has already unfolded.