Films with: Grünberg, Slawomir

Castaways Wyrzutki /

"A deeply moving short documentary about the desperate acts of condemned parents to save their children. Łapy was one of several stations in occupied Poland on the way to the Nazi death campo of Treblinka. Trains transporting Jews would slow down there and sometimes briefly stop while the tracks were being adjusted. Some parents tried to save smal lchildren by throwing them off the train; the last eyewitnesses to this story remember these times."--Container.

DVD 10581

Fenceline a company town divided /

Depicts the struggle of an African-American community in Louisiana's "cancer alley" to be relocated from under the shadow of a Shell chemical plant. Led by activist Margie Richard, the community tries to convince the corporate bosses that the plant is a health hazard. Others in town, especially Shell employees, feel the risk is overstated.

DVD 2876

Legacy of Jedwabne

Feature-length documentary that tells the story of a pogrom in 1941 in Jedwabne, Poland and explores the implications of the past for present constructions and negotiations of personal, national and religious identity.

DVD 10578

Paint what you remember Namaluj co pamietasz /

"Mayer was born in 1916 in a small shtetl: Opatow. He completed seven grades of Polish school and immigrated to Canada at age 17. Mayer's photographic memory and painting skills allowed him to meticulously recreate Jewish life in Opatow, as it was before the war"--LogTV website.

DVD 10585

Peretzniks

The story of a Jewish school in Lodz, Poland shut down following the communist antisemitic campaign in 1968.

DVD 10580

Saved by deportation an unknown Odyssey of Polish Jews /

"This film tells the story of seven deportees, who in 1940 were sent to Gulag labor camps."--LogIn Productions website.

DVD 10577

Sister Rose's passion

Chronicles the life story of Sister Rose Thering, a Dominican nun with the courage, toughness, and passion to stand up for what she believed in. Her work had a direct bearing on the historic Vatican II Council.

DVD 5214

Warsaw Ghetto a film /

"Created for the Jewish Historical Institute as part of its permanent exhibit on the fate of Warsaw's Jews during the period from 1939 to 1945. They present the daily lives and deaths of those imprisoned in the ghetto, their hopes and efforts to survive, their armed resistance and struggle, and finally their total extermination" -- LogIn Productions website.

DVD 10583