Who Will Write Our History

"Resistance comes in many forms."

Jul 21 2018 N/A 1h 35m
Documentary, History

Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Getto.

Plot

Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived. The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.

Written by

Roberta Grossman, Samuel Kassow

Directed by

Roberta Grossman

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Katahdin Productions, Match&Spark, PISF, Maziowiecki Fundusz Filmowy, EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, NDR

Languages

, English, Polski

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
250
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
83
Popularity
NA