The Freedom Last But One - Landscapes of Otto Dov Kulka
By Stefan Auch
2018 | 65 min | Documentary
An historian who survived the concentration camps, Otto Dov Kulka grants insights into his long-hidden world of thoughts.
Eliora Kulka-Soroka
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