The German of the Photo Store

Esporles. June 1940. The day the Foto Esporlas laboratory closed its doors for good, Francesca “Rosseta” could not suspect that she would never see her neighbour, the photographer Leo Israel Frischer, again.

Leo was part of the large group of European Jews who, fleeing Nazism, arrived in Mallorca during the 1930s. Although they were able to enjoy a relative tranquillity at the beginning, in June 1940, most of them received an order of expulsion from the country. These people, stripped of their nationality, without papers and in many cases without economic resources, will have to flee to “nowhere”, crossing a Europe at war.

Presentation and Q/A by the director and screenwriter Juan Pérez Bordoy.

Luis Pérez Bordoy
Editor and producer of different documentaries and programs for television, especially related to the democratic memory. Among his latest works as editor are El hombre más peligroso de Europa, Otto Skorzeny en España for Netflix; and Urraca, cazador de rojos, a co-production of TVE and TV3, winner of the audience award at the Memorabilia Festival.

Juan Pérez Bordoy
Legal and labor advisor in the tertiary sector. Founding partner of the entity ARCA Llegat Jueu, dedicated to the protection, promotion and recovery of the Jewish legacy in the Balearic Islands. In 2019 he was curator, together with Pere Bueno, of the exhibition “Jewish refugees in the Balearic Illes Balears”, organized by the Conselleria de Cultura, Participació i Esports of the Government of the Balearic Islands.