Full Description
During World War II, Winston Churchill shipped thousands of "prisoners of war" - an indiscriminate mix of captured Nazis and Nazi refugees - to detention camps in Canada and Australia. THE SPIES WHO NEVER WERE tells the story of three thousand of these Jewish prisoners the twice-persecuted victims of state caprice. This obscure piece of wartime paranoia is as shocking and unjust as the United States internment of native Japanese, yet the Jewish men and women who survived this experience speak with good humored stoicism, irony, and honor in this stirring documentary.
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Harry Rasky has been called the world’s most acclaimed non-fiction filmmaker. He has been twice nominated for the Oscar and has six Emmy Awards. He is the winner of 200 International prizes.
The 92nd Street in New York held a retrospective of his works calling him “the poet with the camera.”
He is also an author and lecturer. His works are the subject of study at several major universities.
