»As a child, I was fascinated by one moment in our family story. One day, in post-war Lodz, when my grandmother thought that something had managed to escape the cruel jaws of history. […] What kind of family would we have been if the world had allowed her that tiny miracle?«
– Yael Reuveny

Michla and Feiv’ke Schwarz, sister and brother, could have re-met in Lodz in 1945. But they didn’t. She migrated to Palestine and founded a family there, while he returned to East Germany, changed his name to Peter, married a German woman and lived the rest of his life in the camp where he had once been a prisoner. But they are just the beginning. The outcome of their decision affects the course of whole lives, for generations to come, here and now: their children, who struggle to deal with their parents’ silence and their own unasked questions; and their grandchildren who are haunted by family secrets and forced to question their own identity. Two families, in Germany and Israel, not knowing about each other for years, are strangely mirrored. One failed meeting, two families, three generations: Farewell Herr Schwarz portrays two families in Israel and Germany who knew nothing of each other for years. Director Yael Reuveny is the granddaughter of Michla Schwarz.

In cooperation with: Film Kino Text

Awards for ›Schnee von gestern‹
Beste Dokumentation, Haifa International Film Festival 2013