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History, Discovery/Adventure


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Length:  1x13

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: French

Nationality: France

Year: 2000

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Support(s):  SD - Beta SP

POLAND: JEWISH CEMETARY IN WARSAW

Director(s): Malgosha GAGO – Writer(s): Malgosha GAGO   Contact Contact   Download Print page

Poland is like a vast graveyard for thousands of Jews in the world who lost their family during the Holocaust. No tombstone marks the exact resting place of any one of them. However, Warsaw has a Jewish cimetary, which dates back to 1806.

It’s the largest of its kind in Europe and a place out of time: 100 000 tombs in a green haven of tranquillity and emotion. Boleslaw Szenicer watches over the past ever since he discovered this place in 1958. He was six years old then and his father used to work there. In 1980, he simply made up his mind to become its guardian. His son persuaded him to write down his knowledge – it’s the only information that exists and it’s all stored in shoeboxes. Jews from all over the world contact him to find traces of their family…
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