Andrew Jacobs, NY Times writer and director of
Four Seasons Lodge tells
a counterintuitive and spiritually uplifting tale about 100 Polish,
Russian and Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust and, in 1979,
bought 44 acres of land in the Catskills. They created a refuge, a
bungalow colony with communal buildings called Four Seasons Lodge. They
cooked, swam, raised children, prayed together and safely swapped
stories about the war years. Their inspirational dedication to living
righteous and full lives was, as they saw it, the best revenge. As one
member put it: "To live this long, to live this well, is a victory."
