This is a must-see portrait film!
In February 2022, an article was posted on our website entitled The Past Is Not Past, introducing a book by Frank N. Schubert, American author and military historian, a veteran of the Vietnam War, then in preparation, but published since, and we quoted some of its excerpts about Győr. Frank’s, or Mick’s, as his friends call him, Grandfather was deported from Vác, Hungary, to Auschwitz, from where he never returned. The Grandfather was killed and could not have known that his grandson, Mick, had been born and was already one year old in America when he was deported to the death camp.
In the film, Mick presents today’s Győr and the former sites of the terrible events that took place there in the 20th century, as he sees them. This is how he introduces the historical sightseeing tour the movie captures:
“There is no memorialisation, there are no traces of any of these “archipelagos” (i.e. networks of sites of dramatic events scattered like a group of islands – ed.) all over Győr. So that’s when we are looking at this city it turns thinking about these “archipelagos”. These networks and specific sites were very important in this city and they don’t exist anymore. There is no trace of them anymore. That’s the point. As if it did not happen. But it did happen.”
Look at the film.
Read again our post The Past is Not Past.
We would like to thank Mick Schubert for allowing the publication of this protré film.