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MOVIE OF THE WEEK February 8, 2019: WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY

February 3, 2019February 13, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments adrien brody, betsy bozdech, holocaust, joan allen, loren king, marina antunes, maryann johanson, nell minow, Oyneg Shabes Archive, Pam Grady, roberta grossman, sandie angulo chen, Sheila Roberts, warsaw ghetto, who will write our history?

Every single Jew who died during World War II at the hands of Hitler and his Nazis had a story to tell — and the fact that so many of those stories died with them is an unfathomable tragedy. But some of their stories survived, including those preserved by the brave Polish Jews who risked their lives to create the Oyneg Shabes Archive. This astounding cache of documents and artifacts from the Warsaw Ghetto is the subject of Roberta Grossman’s moving, fascinating documentary Who Will Write Our History.

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WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY – Review by Cate Marquis

January 29, 2019February 4, 2019 Cate Marquis 0 Comments adrien brody, documentaries, holocaust, joan allen, motw, Movie of the Week, oyneg shabes, rberta grossman, warsaw ghetto, who will write our history?

There has been concern that public awareness of the Holocaust is declining, particularly among younger people, which makes the documentary Who Will Write Our History timely now. Director Roberta Grossman’s moving documentary is especially well-suited to the task, as it focuses on a secret group in the Warsaw Ghetto, led by a Polish Jewish historian, who set out to create a history and record of Jewish culture, to counteract the version of Jewish life they saw Nazi propaganda creating.

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WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY – Review by Martha K. Baker

January 29, 2019February 4, 2019 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments adrien brody, emanuel ringelbaum, holocaust documentaries, joan allen, roberta grossman, samuel kassow, warsaw ghetto, who will write our history?

The backstory is this: In November 1940, Nazis stuffed 450,000 Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. To tell their stories, a clandestine band of journalists and scholars, led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, rebelled against the Nazi propaganda declaring Jews as hairy, dirty, and undesirable scum. Ringelblum asked, “Will Germans write our history or will we?” To off-set the lies, Ringelblum and his cohorts collected eye-witness accounts from the Jewish perspective and, in the end, provided documents for persecution of the persecutors.