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Let's talk about the war again (2014)

Film maker Natascha van Weezel cannot move around in Amsterdam without being reminded of the Second World War. Even now, the war is part of her life and that of her parents, who are both children of Jewish Holocaust survivors. Natascha wonders if there are other grandchildren who, like her, find the war playing such a large role in their lives.

In Let's talk about the war again she reports on her personal quest for what it means to be ‘third generation’. What is it like to be confronted from an early age, through parents and grandparents, with stories about the war and everything connected with the Holocaust?

Van Weezel speaks with six people in their twenties who are each in their own way trying to deal with being Jewish in the light of their emotionally charged family history. For the one the war history of the grandparents is more of an issue than for another, but it is true for all of themthat the family history determines them in their fears, ideals and political views.

With the six people she portrays she shares her experience of living with the heritage of the grandparents. How legitimate is it to be so fascinated by an event they have not themselves lived through?

In Let's talk about the war again film maker Natascha van Weezel shows what it is like to be confronted from an early age, through parents and grandparents, with stories about the war and everything connected with the Holocaust.

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