The hidden (2010)
The hidden (2010)

Summary/Abstract: Łukasz Konopa’s film is devoted to the Righteous, their fate after World War II and the problem of memory about Jews. Shot as a part of an anthropological and historical research project concerning memory about Jews in provincial Poland. Using the ethnographic interview method, the author attempts to record accounts of events which transpired during the Nazi occupation of Poland and of postwar realities of people who had helped Jews in a village in Podlasie. Łukasz Konopa talks with two men living near Białystok. Some sixty years after the war, the Wasilewski brothers recount before the camera the dramatic events in which they took part. Their parents provided shelter to three Jews from the nearby town of Trzcianne, which brought upon them persecution from their Polish neighbors. The film’s heroes, answering sincerely and with pain the researcher’s question, demonstrating exceptional bravery and opposing the hostility of their own community.

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