"This was my youth," he said, adding that the task of developing the screenplay with Harwood was so harrowing that he resorted to gallows humor to get through the day. "I would ask, 'How many Jews ...
Hirsch Lekert was an anti-Zionist Bundist who had attempted to assassinate the governor of Vilna, General Victor von Wahlin, in 1902 and was hanged from the gallows. His last words, in folk ...
Nor did he use the platform to make a last-ditch plea for clemency, as most people would when facing the prospect of the gallows. Instead he delivered a clear and sober assessment ... We want to live ...