Premiere of a Polish Radio drama, co-produced by POLIN Museum.

Redakcja, 8 November 2026
On Sunday, 8th November 2026, Polish Radio One (Program Pierwszy Polskiego Radia) will premiere the first episode of The Righteous Archive (Archiwum Sprawiedliwych), a radio drama written by Marta Rebzda and directed by Waldemar Modestowicz. The five-part series presents selected stories of Poles, who selflessly helped Jewish men and women under German occupation during World War II. The radio drama will be accompanied by interviews with experts, conducted by journalist and commentator Michał Wójcik. The radio drama was produced by Polish Radio One in co-production with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, with funding from the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.

Episode 1.: "I Stand and Watch”

Halina Goldberg was just seventeen years old when she was confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Bernard Konrad Świerczyński, known as "Kondek", her neighbour on the "Aryan side”, secretly entered the ghetto several times, each week, to bring food to Halina and her family.

When the Germans began the ghetto "liquidation", he helped the woman, whom he loved, to escape to freedom. He moved her from one hiding place to another because, almost everywhere, there was someone who simply “stood and watched”.

Following the Warsaw Uprising, Halina and Kondek married. When their son and daughter were born, Halina felt that her family was being reborn.

  • Written by: Marta Rebzda
  • Director: Waldemar Modestowicz
  • Sound director: Maciej Kubera
  • Music: Piotr Moss
  • Production Manager: Beata Jankowska
  • Cast: Dorota Landowska, Oliwia Motyka-Radłowska, Mariusz Bonaszewski, Jakub Jankiewicz, Aleksander Sajewski, Mateusz Rusin, Joanna Fikus, Karina Sokołowska, Andrzej Krakowski i Piotr Kulisiewicz

"I Stand and Watch", a radio drama by Marta Rebzda and directed by Waldemar Modestowicz, will be broadcast on Polish Radio One on Sunday,8th November 2026, at 6:00 pm.

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Polish Radio Theatre produces and broadcasts radio dramas based on original scripts and radio adaptations of stage plays, novels and report articles. The history of Polish radio drama dates back to 29th November 1925. It was then that Stanisław Wyspiański’s Warszawianka (The Warsaw Anthem), directed by Mikołaj Alojzy Kaszyn, was broadcast live on Polish Radio.

Among its best-known radio drama series are Matysiakowie (The Matysiak Family), broadcast from 1956, and W Jezioranach (In Jeziorany), broadcast from 1960.

All recordings are on the Polish Radio website.

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