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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 00 Uncle Chatzkel.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 minutes)
       :|bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
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347    video file|bMPEG-4|bFlash 
500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by National Film and Sound Archive of 
       Australia in 2000. 
520    Uncle Chatzkel portrays the patient triumph of one man’s 
       dignity and intellect over genocide, oppression and 
       personal adversity. Chatzkel Lemchen has lived through the
       Russian revolution, two world wars, a communist regime and
       the transition of Lithuania from Soviet republic to an 
       independent state. During the Holocaust his parents and 
       children, along with many of their fellow Jewish citizens,
       were killed by the Nazis and their Lithuanian supporters. 
       He and his wife were sent to separate concentration camps 
       in Germany. Chatzkel survived through his skills as a 
       linguist and lexicographer, and his dictionaries helped 
       preserve the Lithuanian language during the Soviet era. At
       93, he still lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania, 
       providing a bridge between Lithuanian, Russian and Yiddish
       cultures. Now regarded as a national treasure, Chatzkel 
       displays the strength of a survivor, the insight of an 
       intellectual and the humour of a wise man. One of seven 
       siblings, Chatzkel was the only member of his family to 
       remain in his homeland. His sister Gita migrated to South 
       Africa in 1913, later moving to Australia. Filmmaker Rod 
       Freedman is Gita’s grandson and Chatzkel's great nephew. 
       Although Chatzkel had received his country’s highest 
       honours, Rod and the rest of his Australian family were 
       barely aware of him. Rod had only seen old photographs and
       had never even spoken with him on the telephone. The 
       journey to meet his great uncle is an intense and 
       enlightening experience, raising questions of personal 
       identity and relationship to his Jewish Lithuanian roots. 
       Chatzkel himself lived in a world removed from his 
       relatives, separated by the Iron Curtain, by physical and 
       psychological barriers. When he finally meets some of them,
       he is confronted with unexpected emotions. Chatzkel’s 
       enthralling accounts of the turning points in his life 
       have great historical and contemporary relevance. In 
       Freedman’s documentary, they are combined with powerful 
       Russian and Lithuanian archival footage, some seen for the
       first time. The result is a film of great scope, one that 
       helps us to better understand the relationship of the 
       present to the past through the story of an extraordinary 
       individual, Uncle Chatzkel. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Lemchenas, Ch. (Chackelis),|d1904-. 
650  0 Linguists|zLithuania|vBiography. 
651  0 Lithuania|vHistory|y20th century. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Freedman, Rod,|efilm director. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
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