The Accountant of Auschwitz

The Accountant of Auschwitz is a Canadian documentary film, produced by Ricki Gurwitz and Ric Esther Bienstock and directed by Matthew Shoychet.

[1] The film centres on lawyer Thomas Walther's prosecution in the 2010s of former Schutzstaffel member Oskar Gröning, focusing in part on the ethical debate around whether there's any useful purpose to be served in prosecuting an elderly man for crimes he committed 60 years earlier.

The film won four Canadian Screen Awards at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, for Best History Documentary Program or Series, Best Editorial Research (Ricki Gurwitz), Best Visual Research (Ricki Gurwitz), and Best Music in a Non-Fiction Program or Series (Ken Myhr).

The film was executive produced by Jeff Sackman, Berry Meyerowitz, Sari Stitt, Shael Rosenbaum, Jordan Nahmias, and Randi Kishenbaum.

Producers were Ric Esther Bienstock and Ricki Gurwitz.