Like Shoah and The Sorrow and the Pity, We Were So Beloved uses gripping personal testimony to examine the complex emotional and philosophical implications of the survival of the Jews of Washington Heights.

What the Critics are Saying

"Provocative, riveting...A no less harrowing examination of conscience than Shoah and The Sorrow and The Pity." -The New York Times

"Daring and haunting candor... a stimulating, provocative, and luminously humane documentary." -Chicago Reader

"Hair-raising. Evokes the surrealistically terrifying world of mid-30s Germany." -Jewish Week

"A film that dares to ask startling, gravely impertinent questions." -New York Daily News

"I'd give it an Oscar." -David Sterrit, Christian Science Monitor