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, this clandestine group vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with pen and paper. 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.
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY is their history. The documentary is being shown in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The film’s cinematographer, Dyanna Taylor, will be joining us in person to discuss the making of the film.
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