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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 Loren King

January 31, 2019February 6, 2019 Loren King 0 Comments adrien brodie, documentaries, emanuel ringelblum, holocaust, joan allen, Rachel Auerbach, roberta grossman, samuel kassow, warsaw ghetto, who will write our history?

What a perfect title for this heart-wrenching and necessary film. Who Will Write Our History written and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, not only brings to light a vital historical event but resonates across space and time about what it means to bear witness.

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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.

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BLESSED IS THE MATCH: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HANNAH SENESH – Review by Jennifer Merin

September 30, 2014February 3, 2019 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments blessed is the match, documentaries, hannah senesh, holocaust, roberta grossman

Blessed Is The Match – The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh is the heartbreaking World War II story of a young Jewish women, Hannah Senesh, who’d emigrated from Hungary to Palestine, but later joined the British Army, parachuted into Yugoslavia and tried to sneak into her native country in a valiant attempt to save the Jewish community–including her mother–from death at the hands of Hungarian Nazis.

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