Ma rencontre avec Saul

The Last Ones is a series of short documentaries. Each episode features an interview with one of the last survivors of the camps, who recounts their experiences during the war, their life afterward, the transmission of memory, and their perspective on the world today. Directed by Sophie Nahum and produced by HelloProd, this series gives a voice to the last survivors of the Holocaust. ---------------- Saul Blau was born in 1930 in Tarpa, Hungary, the sixth of seven children in an observant Jewish family. At thirteen, he and his family were torn from their home and deported to Auschwitz, where his parents and younger sister were murdered. On arrival, a block elder pointed to the crematorium chimney and told him his parents had already been gassed and cremated; from that moment, he understood his only task was survival. Selected for labor, Saul was sent to a coal-mine camp in the Auschwitz industrial complex and endured months of starvation, sickness, and fear. In January 1945 he was driven on a death march to Buchenwald, where U.S. forces liberated him later that year. After the war, he returned to Hungary to search for surviving relatives before immigrating to Israel. In the new Jewish homeland, he joined the fledgling Israeli Air Force, beginning to rebuild a life from the ashes of his childhood. Saul remained in Israel for seven years before moving to the United States to reunite with his siblings. There, he met Viola, and together they built a new life — and a family — raising two sons, Robert and Andrew. Even today, Saul carries a spark of youth, as if determined to live fully the life that was almost taken from him. Handsome behind the wheel of his car, he radiates an energy that feels both defiant and alive — a man who refuses to let time, or history, slow him down.