Back to Gombin
17
JULY
2012
Presented by Minna Zielonk-Packer, film director.
Skillfully incorporating rare archival footage shot in 1937, with contemporary scenes, the film tells the story of the return of children of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, to their parents' village in central Poland. Gombin is the Yiddish for Gabin, a Polish town 75 miles northwest of Warsaw. They meet their parents' former neighbors and together they pay homage to their ancestors in this town where Jews and Christians lived together for centuries. We join them at the rededication of the Jewish cemetery, restoring tombstones desecrated and used as road paving; at the placement of a monument to the Jewish victims at Chelmno, the first extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and at the Konin slave labor camp's mass grave, where the filmmaker's grandfather is buried. This moving film makes a strong statement about the continuity of life and the need of subsequent generations to remember.
Speaker | Location |
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Minna ZIELONKA-PACKER |
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