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Aftermath (Polish: Pokłosie) is a 2012 Polish film written and directed by Władysław Pasikowski.The fictional Holocaust-related thriller and drama is inspired by the July 1941 Jedwabne pogrom in occupied north-eastern Poland during Operation Barbarossa, in which 340 Polish Jews were locked in a barn in Jedwabne, which was later set on fire by a group of Polish men.
According to the video’s captions—which were included in versions posted by Stein’s team on Facebook and on X—the candidate responds that “the Jewish people have Poland.” At @Columbia ...
Długa noc (English: The Long Night) is a Polish war film from 1967, directed by Janusz Nasfeter, based on the novel Noc by Wiesław Rogowski [].The plot revolves around the dilemmas faced by the residents of a certain house in occupied Poland during World War II, where one of the inhabitants is revealed to be a collaborator with a partisan unit and a person hiding a Jew.
During World War II, three million Polish Jews (90% of the prewar Polish-Jewish population) were killed due to Nazi German genocidal action. At least 2.5 million non-Jewish Polish civilians and soldiers perished. [14] One million non-Polish Jews were also forcibly transported by the Nazis and killed in German-occupied Poland. [15]
Although initially intended for forced labor rather than extermination, it was used to murder people on an industrial scale during Operation Reinhard, the German plan to murder all Polish Jews within their own occupied homeland. [2] In operation from 1 October 1941 to 22 July 1944, it was captured nearly intact.
Before World War II, Poland's Jewish community had numbered about 3,460,000 – about 9.7 percent of the country's total population. [5] Following the invasion of Poland, Germany's Nazi regime sent millions of deportees from every European country to the concentration and forced-labor camps set up in the General Government territory of occupied Poland and across the Polish areas annexed by ...
After weathering censorship from the government and even death threats, the veteran Oscar nominee has been vindicated by the success of her film "Green Border." She made an honest movie about ...
The film examines three minutes of footage shot of the Jewish community in the Polish town of Nasielsk in 1938, shortly before it was decimated during the Holocaust.The film is based on the 2014 non-fiction book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film by American musician Glenn Kurtz, whose grandfather David shot the footage.