Personal diaries that were written during WW2 in Budapest, document the everyday horrors and persecution of the Jews.
“Budapest Diaries” depicts the events of the final year of WWII and the Holocaust of the local Jews as documented in diaries written in real-time by the Jews, their persecutors, and bystanders. The diaries, written by “ordinary people” document the various perspectives of the persecution of the Jews, the battles that almost destroyed the city and the sobering up at the end of the war. They chronicle the rumors, the hopes, the bitter news and intimately detail without filters the feelings of the authors, their worldviews and often their darkest secrets.
Director Shay Fogelman
Born 1971, Haifa, Israel. Documentary filmmaker, Investigative Journalist, literature editor, and Lecturer.
Director, Cinematographer, Editor – CHASING YEHOSHUA (2019)
Researcher – SAVOY (2022) Director: Zohar Wagner
Researcher – TANTURA (2022) Director: Alon Schwartz
Researcher – THE FIRST 54 YEARS (2021) Director: Avi Mograbi
Executive producer – 21 DAYS INSIDE (2019) Director: Zohar Wagner
Editing advisor – WENDING (2014) Director: Avi Belkin
Researcher – MESSIAH (2013) Director: Yoav Shamir
Researcher – AT JOSEPH TOUMB (2004) Director: Yael Kiper
Researcher, Field producer – CHECKPOINT (2003) Director: Yoav Shamir
| Shay Fogelman Director, Writer, Key Cast Zafrir Kochanovsky Producer Miri Ezra Producer Amir I.Wolf Key Cast Ofek Ben Meir Key Cast David Zarif Cinematographer Sivan Gonshorovitz Editor Yossi Applebaum Sound Design Nadav Hollander Music Asaf Yecheskel Distributor |
