Documentary on ORF3

When Lackenbach was a Jewish jewel

Jewish guests with Vranitzky and producer Blecha.(Bild: Grammer Karl)

(Bild: Grammer Karl)

The Holocaust and its dramatic consequences - a film documentary that shakes you awake!

It's good that we don't keep quiet about the past, but talk about it." At the sensitive premiere of "Lackenbach. Meine Kehillah" in the former Kobersdorf synagogue at the beginning of April, producer Norbert Blecha took a profound look into a cruel past with his Terra-Film documentary - when the thriving Jewish community of Lackenbach was brutally robbed of its great culture by the National Socialists.

Former Minister of the Interior Karl Blecha was present at the premiere.(Bild: Grammer Karl)

 Prominent guests such as former Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky and former Interior Minister Karl Blecha as well as Provincial Councillor Heinrich Dorner found moving words in the face of many personal tragedies. Due to the enormous interest, the harrowing documentary was shown again last week in a new version.

Under the title "Lackenbach - Die ausgelöschte Gemeinde" (Lackenbach - The Exterminated Community), this cinematic contemporary history will be shown once again on ORF III today at 7.25 pm. 190 Jews who were born in Lackenbach and lived there until 1938 perished in the Holocaust. None of them returned after 1945.