A Hole In The Head

A pig farm in Lety South Bohemia would make an ideal monument to collaboration and indifference says writer and journalist Markus Pape Most of those appearing in this documentary filmed in Slovakia the Czech Republic Poland and Croatia have personal experience of the indifference to the genocide of the Roma Many of them experienced the Holocaust as children and their distorted memories have earned them distrust and ridicule Continuing racism and antiRoma sentiment is illustrated among other matters by how contemporary society looks after the locations where the murders occurred However this documentary film essay focuses mainly on the survivors who share with viewers their indelible traumas their hole in the head