New Movie About Holocaust Survivors In The Catskills

The movie starts playing today:

Four Seasons Lodge: Life After Auschwitz
Living well — and long — is the best revenge on Hitler.

The summer guests at the Four Seasons Lodge in New York’s Catskill Mountains play poker, dance into the wee hours of the night and swap stories like you might at any family reunion.

But a shared tragedy is never far from their thoughts. These guests, most of whom are in their 80s, survived the Nazi concentration camps more than 65 years ago.

“This is always behind your head,” says one guest during the new documentary Four Seasons Lodge, getting its world premiere June 17 at the Silverdocs film festival in D.C.

These seniors, mostly of Polish descent, began gathering in New York’s famed retreat more than 25 years ago. Each summer they stay at a bungalow colony where they formed bonds just as authentic as familial ones. These lodge retreats served as their escape from the anti-Semitism they endured in their respective towns and from the isolation they felt as immigrants.

They are Holocaust survivors, but they rarely act the part.

Four Seasons Lodge shares their 2006 summer gathering, which could be their last. The colony is for sale, and part of their summer involves intense negotiations regarding its future.

Read bios about the 'campers' here.

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