Unzere kinder ou comment rester juif en Pologne après la Shoah
At the end of the war, with help from mutual aid networks abroad, one of the priorities of Poland’s Jewish community was to assist and educate young people. These 30,000 children represented the continuity and renaissance of the Jewish people.Filmed in part at the Helenówek orphanage near Lodz, Unz...
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2022
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | At the end of the war, with help from mutual aid networks abroad, one of the priorities of Poland’s Jewish community was to assist and educate young people. These 30,000 children represented the continuity and renaissance of the Jewish people.Filmed in part at the Helenówek orphanage near Lodz, Unzere kinder (“Our Children,” 1947-1948), directed and co-written by Natan Gross, aims to help finance the Joint’s educational and relief missions by showing one of its impressive achievements.The last Yiddish film made in Poland, “Our Children” was censored and long remained invisible until it was restored by the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, which allowed it to be rediscovered by a new audience.While the film explores themes of memory and forgetting, intergenerational links, and theatrical catharsis as well as the courage and resilience of the children who are supposed to be playing themselves, it also subtly addresses the situation of the surviving Jews in Poland: the place they can or must occupy as well as their relationships, both so distant and so intimate, with their Polish neighbors in a context that remains traumatic and problematic.The progress of historiography sheds new light on this topic, which has remained a blind spot in various commentaries until now. This article begins by outlining the context in which the film was produced and directed, and then analyzes Polish-Jewish relations based on several scenes. How do you grow up and remain Jewish in Poland after the Shoah? This is the underlying questioning developed by this magnetic and captivating work. |
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