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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.
During Nazi-occupied Poland, two Lvov sewer workers, Leopold Socha and Szczepek Wróblewski, loot successfully. They witness Nazis executing Jewish women in the woods before returning home. In the Lvov ghetto, Jews face persecution and humiliation by German SS men and collaborating Ukrainian police. Illegal trade and prostitution flourish under ...
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.
Though Stein may not have said that Jews have a homeland in Poland, she did not clarify where the Jewish homeland should be if not Israel. She also made several other dubious claims in the video ...
The Polish government condemned wanton violence against the Jewish minority, fearing international repercussions, but shared the view that the Jewish minority hindered Poland's development; in January 1937 Foreign Minister Józef Beck declared that Poland could house 500,000 Jews, and hoped that over the next 30 years 80,000–100,000 Jews a ...
Depicts the destruction of Polish Jewry by the Nazi onslaught, includes rare footage of Jewish life in early 20th century Poland. 1967 United States The Diary of Anne Frank: Alex Segal: TV movie: Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. 1969 France
Remembrance (Polish: Zagubiony Czas German: Die verlorene Zeit The Lost Time) is a 2011 German drama film directed by Anna Justice. A German-Jewish young woman and Polish young man fall in love and escape a Nazi concentration camp. As the film prologue notes, it is based on the true story of Jerzy Bielecki and Cyla Cybulska. [1] [2]
According to its director, Mirek Chojecki, it was supposed to be one-time event aiming in presenting tradition of the Jewish cinema, from pre-war Yiddish movies made in Poland up to modern cinema of the 21st century. The festival received such positive attention both from international guests and Polish local audience that at the closing ...