Who will write our history / Katahdin Productions and Match&Spark present, in association with ARTE and NDR, and The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute ; a film by Roberta Grossman ; written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman ; consulting scholar, Samuel D. Kassow ; executive producers, Nancy Speilberg, Ronald S. Lauder, Al Berg, Ori and Mirit Eisen, Anna Różalska, Philippa Kowarsky.

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"In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and prop...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Katahdin Productions (Firm) (Presenter, Production company)
Match&Spark (Firm) (Presenter, Production company)
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Production company)
Association relative à la télévision européenne (Production company)
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (Production company)
ECI Łódź (Production company)
Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury (Production company)
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej (sponsoring body.)
Good Docs (Firm) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Grossman, Roberta (Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director)
Spielberg, Nancy, 1956- (Film producer)
Lauder, Ronald S. (Film producer)
Berg, Al (Film producer)
Eisen, Mirit (Film producer)
Eisen, Ori (Film producer)
Kowarsky, Philippa (Film producer)
Taylor, Dyanna (Cinematographer)
Callister, Chris, 1980- (editor of miving image work.)
Rarey, Ondine (editor of miving image work.)
Boekelheide, Todd (composer (expression))
Brody, Adrien (Voice actor)
Różalska, Anna (Film producer)
Allen, Joan, 1956- (Voice actor)
Kassow, Samuel D.
Language:English
Polish
Yiddish
Language of the Original:
Polish
Yiddish
Language and/or Writing System:
Primarily in English, with sections of dialog in Polish and Yiddish; subtitled and close captioned in English.
Published: [Łódź, Poland] : Katahdin Productions, [2018]
Subjects:
Ringelblum, Emanuel, > 1900-1944.
Oyneg Shabes (Group)
Ringelblum-Archiv.
Jews > Persecutions > Poland > Warsaw.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Warsaw > History.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Warsaw > Personal narratives.
Warsaw (Poland) > History > Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
Jews > Persecutions.
Poland > Warsaw.
1939-1945
Personal narratives.
Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)
Documentary films.
Educational films.
Feature films.
Historical films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Genre:
Personal narratives.
Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)
Documentary films.
Educational films.
Feature films.
Historical films.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (96 min. or 37 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. Now, for the first time, their story is told as a feature documentary. Written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History mixes the writings of the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and stunning dramatizations to transport us inside the Ghetto and the lives of these courageous resistance fighters. They defied their murderous enemy with the ultimate weapon - the truth - and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not."--Container.
Note:"Based on the book, Who will write our history? by Samuel D. Kassow"--Beginning credits.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2018.
"© Katahdin Productions 2018 ; Copyright 2018"--Disc label & end credits.
Actual running time on container: "Full length film - 96 minutes / Educational film - 37 minutes".
"Full length version (93 minutes), classroom length version (36 minutes)"--Title frame.
Presented in both full length and classroom length versions.
A mixture of documentary footage and dramatization.
"Words spoken by actors in this film are taken directly from a secret archive in the Warsaw Ghetto."--Beginning credits.
"Produced by Katahdin Productions in association with Match&Spark, arte NDR, National Endowment for The Humanities in association with The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute In Poland ; film co-produced by ECI Łódź - the City of Culture, Mazovia Institute of Culture ; a Polish Film Institute co-financed production ..."--End credits.
Call Number:DS134.64 .W56 2019 VideoDVD
Credits:Director of photography, Dyanna Taylor ; editors, Chris Callister, Ondine Rarey ; composer, Todd Boekelheide ; production designers, Frank Gampel, Marek Warszewski ; costume designer, Aleksandra Staszko ; story consultant, Sophie Sartain ; sound designer, James LeBrecht ; co-executive producers, The Blavatnik Family Foundation [and others] ; dramatizations casting director, Piotr Bartuszek ; voice over casting director, Heidi Levitt, Marin Hope.
System Details:DVD; NTSC format, all regions; stereo.
Cast:
Adrien Brody (voices of Emanuel Ringelbaum) and Joan Allen (voices of Rachel Auerbach), Jowita Budnik (Rachel Auerbach), Piotr Głowacki (Emanuel Ringelbaum), Piotr Jankowski (Hersh Wasser), Wojciech Zielinski (Abraham Lewin), Karolina Gruszka (Judyta Ringelblum) [and others] ; Interviewees: Jan Grabowski, Samuel D. Kassow [and others].