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Actor Wojciech Zielinski as Abraham Lewin in the film ‘Who Will Write Our History,’ about Oyneg Shabes, a group of  Warsaw Jews who created a secret archive of eyewitness accounts of Jewish life in Warsaw and documentation of Nazi atrocities.  Photo: Anna Wloch 

History of the Warsaw Ghetto comes to life in documentary

BY CATE MARQUIS, Special To The Jewish LightPublished January 24, 2019

Who Will Write Our History - Teaser from Katahdin Productions on Vimeo.“Who Will Write Our History” is the question that plagued Jewish-Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum as the Nazis were sealing up Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Ringelblum worried...

Jürgen Stroop, played by Gary Wayne Barker (left), is a Nazi war criminal who shares a cell with Kazimierz Moczarski, played by J. Samuel Davis, for nine months.

Knowing the enemy within

By Gerry Kowarsky, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 18, 2012

What would you do if you were imprisoned with a Nazi war criminal, someone who you tried to assassinate during the war? Kazimierz Moczarski found himself in this exact position. As an officer in the Polish resistance, Moczarski avoided capture during...

Jan Karski honored in Poland for WWII resistance work

JTAPublished February 16, 2012

PRAGUE -- The Polish Senate has posthumously honored World War II hero Jan Karski for his work in revealing Nazi genocide taking place in Poland. During a special meeting Wednesday of Upper House of the Polish Parliament, guests including United States'...

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