Abel Ferrara planning Auschwitz film
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
04.08.2015 13:12
American director Abel Ferrara is planning a film based on the memoir of an assistant to Josef Mengele, the notorious doctor who conducted experiments at the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The entrance to the former death camp of Birkenau. Photo: wikipedia/A. Celedon
“If you've got the money I'll make it tomorrow,” Ferrara told Polish Radio, when asked whether he wanted to film the project in Poland.
“I wanna do this movie.”
Ferrara, who is best known for films such as 'King of New York' and 'Bad Lieutenant', is basing the Auschwitz project on the 1946 book 'I Was Doctor Mengele's Assistant', by Miklós Nyiszli.
Nyiszli was a Hungarian Jew who was transported to Auschwitz as a prisoner in 1944.
His skills as a doctor came to the attention of Dr Mengele, and he was forced to work as an assistant to the infamous medic, carrying out numerous experiments on camp inmates.
Mengele evaded capture by the Allies and fled to South America, living under a false name in Argentina, followed by Paraguay and Brazil, until his death in 1979.
Nyiszli died of a heart attack in 1956. (nh)