By Mabel Pais

Discover the incredible true story that inspired the film ‘PLAN A’ in the new non-fiction book ‘NAKAM’ from Prof. Dina Porat, former Chief Historian for YadVashem (Israel‘s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust – yadvashem.org).

“This meticulous and empathetic study gives an overlooked chapter of Jewish history its due” writes Publishers Weekly.

What if your family was murdered: your brothers, sisters, parents and children.

Everyone. Murdered.For no sane reason at all.Ask yourself… What would you do?

In 1945, hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors answered that question by getting as far from Europe as possible. But a small group refused to leave without extracting a full measure of vengeance – not only against SS guards and Nazi leaders but on the German people themselves by poisoning the water supply.

‘PLAN A’ is a powerful English-language drama based on the incredible true story of these “Avengers” – a group of Jewish vigilantes, men and women, who vowed to avenge the death of their people – “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

Based on the book ‘Nakam’ by Prof. Dina Porat, chief historian at Yad Vashem (yadvashem.org), PLAN A asks the impossible question of how survivors plagued by such memories struggled with conflicting feelings about lust for justice and the desire for payback.

PLAN A

Dirs: Doron & Yoav Paz l 2022 l Germany, Israel l Drama l English l 1h 49m

‘PLAN A’ is based on the incredible true story of the “Avengers“. A group of Jewish vigilantes, men and women, who after surviving the holocaust are vowing to avenge the death of their people – “an eye for any eye, a tooth for a tooth“ – as is written in the Bible. As far as they were concerned, there was no need for warnings, arrests or trials.

Max, a holocaust survivor, has lost all his family in the camps. Full of rage and with nothing left to live for other than revenge he helps the Jewish Brigade, soldiers under British command, to off the record find and execute Nazis accused of leading positions in the Nazi system. When the brigade is called off, Max follows Anna and a group of former partisans to Nuremberg, where they soon realize that they will not find redemption in the upcoming Nuremberg trials.

Led by charismatic leader Abba Kovner, they formulate the biggest revenge operation in history – “Plan A“. They infiltrate German water companies as undercover engineers with only one goal: to poison the drinking water in Nuremberg, Munich, Cologne, Weimar and Hamburg and “to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans“.

Opening: Available on major streaming platforms. Available on Blu-ray.