In the beginning, nobody wanted to listen to rabbi Weissmandl, because it seemed he was making all these horror stories up. Then, when the scope of the genocide became known, Weissmandl was erased from history books, not to remind of ignored chances for rescue. And today, nobody wants to hear about Weissmandl, claiming enough was said already about the Holocaust.
 
Among Blind Fools is the only documentary project capturing the whole story of rabbi Michael Weissmandl, resistance and rescue fighter, who during the WWII attempted to save all the Jews of Europe, but was unable to save his own family.
 
Rabbi Michael Weissmandl was extraordinary in many ways. Growing up in religious environment, he was a technical and mathematical genius. Since the onset of the WWII in 1939, the knowledge of matematics enabled him to play strategy games with the enemy.
 
Weissmandl initiated series of secret negotiations in Slovakia, bribing all the local Nazi leaders. After becoming convinced that these actions stopped the deportations of Jews from Slovakia, he attempted to negotiate for the lives of all Jews of Europe. Opening a direct link to Adolf Eichmann, Weissmandl understood the turnaround in the war progress, and by 1943 used the Nazis´ own conviction that the Jews ruled the world to elicit concessions from the ongoing mass murder and genocide. Weissmandl was behind the so-called Auschwitz protocols, and the attempts to involve the Vatican in recue attempts.
 
When in 1944 Germany occupied Nazi Slovakia, all the existing rescue deals were annuled. Weissmandl and his co-workers were trapped. After jumping a deportation train taking him to Auschwitz, leaving his family behind, Weissmandl continued in rescue activities, and eventually reached Switzerland on a secret convoy arranged by Eichmann´s deputy in Hungary, SS Kurt Becher.
 
Rabbi Weismandl never came to terms with the murderous silence of the Free world face to face with the Holocaust. Longing for his lost family, he died a broken man in 1957 in the United States, aged 53 years. The silence of the Free World continues in the ignorance of Weissmandl´s very existence.
 
Among Blind Fools, a trilogy of three 55 minute documentary films, was screened on Czech TV in 1999 and collected all the local documentary awards. It was never broadcasted outside the former Czechoslovakia. The most often cited reason for rejection was that „this cannot be true, you made it up“ and „the film is too complicated, and it is not clear who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.“ The length of the trilogy was also held against it, but all our attempts to produce a shorter version met only disinterest of the potential coproducers.
 
The VERAfilm archive today contains over 87 hours of interviews with persons directly involved in the resistance and rescue attempts of rabbi Weissmandl. Despite the religious prohibiton of photography, numerous photographs and even film footage related to Weissmandl were obtained. There is enough material to produce a 50 minute historical documentary based on memories of the eye-witnesses. But there seems to be zero interest.
 
So maybe it is only the opposing extreme ends of the Jewish political spectrum that see any value in the Among Blind Fools trilogy: the film was praised by both the representatives of the Yesha Council and the Jews Against Zionism web-page as „a documentary that finally captured the whole truth“.