Katahdin Productions and Match&Spark Present in Association with NDR and ARTE
A Film by Roberta Grossman
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.
Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
The writer and producer of the film, Roberta Grossman, will join us to introduce the film, and will conduct a Q & A after the film.
TICKET PRICES
$10/ticket
in advance at
BJE Office
$12/ticket
via online purchase
$13/ticket
at the door (if available)
$54/ticket
Reserved Seat
