Righteous on film

MHŻP, 16 November 2016
51 short films presenting the most interesting parts of the interviews with the rescuers and rescued from the time of the Nazi occupation in Poland can already be seen on the website www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl. We are also working on a full-length documentary film devoted to the Righteous.

The portal “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” has already collected 400 stories of people who were hiding and those who helped them during the Second World War. This is the unique value of our project: the accounts of the Polish Righteous are supplemented with the accounts of the other side – the hiding Jews.

These 400 fascinating stories can be easily found in the section Stories of rescue and 51 among them are supplemented with 3-minute films. They present the most interesting parts of conversations devoted to critical moments during the hiding, Gestapo searches and the postwar stories of the rescuers and rescued. Another interview – with Irena Steinfeld, director of the Department of the Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem – will be soon available on the website.

Apart from the short films, a full-length documentary will be produced until the end of 2011. From March 18th to April 1st was held a documentation project in Israel – in Tel Aviv, Ganei Tikwa, Ramat Gan, Ramat Aviv, Holon and Jerusalem. Jadwiga Rytlowa (born 1928, daughter of the Righteous Aldona Lipszyc) and her friend Janina Goldhar (born 1929, survived the Second World War thanks to the help of Maria Palester) were talking to people honored with the medal “Righteous Among the Nations”, with those who rescued Jews and did not receive a medal and with the rescued themselves, among them with Barbara Biran, Sara Gliksman, Shalom Lindenbaum, Jakoba Dąbrowska and Lusia Shimel.

Jadwiga Rytlowa and Janina Goldhar were accompanied by Joanna Król and Karolina Dzięciołowska, coordinators of the project „Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”. This is how they describe their work and mission: The more accounts of rescuers and rescued we collect and publish, the greater the knowledge about the times of the Holocaust will be. Recording and making those accounts available to the next generations is our duty.

 

 

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

The film was produced thanks to the help of the Warsaw Jewish Community, the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, the GTC – Globe Trade Center.