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Roberta Grossman’s film premiered on 21 July at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award. This year, it will be screened in Poland – on 12 November, it will open the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Historical Institute is one of the film’s partners.

One of Emanuel Ringelblum’s closest associates. His organizational skills were essential for the Two and a half years of war – a great historical project which recorded the life of Polish Jews under German occupation. He was collecting food and clothing for the poorest people in the Warsaw ghetto, as well as money for the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB). Having been arrested by the Germans, Bloch decided to stay with his comrades until his death, despite an opportunity to escape from the labour camp.

Icchak Giterman had been a dedicated social activist and the director of Joint in Poland for many years. Ringelblum, who co-organized with him aid for Polish Jews displaced to Zbąszyń due to Polenaktion, wrote about him that he was a man of extraordinary thought, who had his own opinion about every issue. During the war, he supported resistance, organized aid for other ghettos, and since May 1940, he joined the board of Oneg Shabbat, supporting the group financially as well. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he lost his wife and son. He managed to obtain a false Argentinian passport but abandoned the idea of escaping. He was shot by Germans on 18 January 1943.