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Suppressed by the Polish Communist
government as too "pro-Zionist" and lost for over thirty
years, Our Children was the last produced Polish
Yiddish feature film.
Filmed in 1948 at the JDC-supported
Helenowek Colony, an orphage near Lodz housing Jewish
children who had survived the Holocaust, the film's
centerpiece is a performance by the comedy duo Dzigan and
Schumacher of Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke in Burning.
Upset by the innaccuracy of the
performer's musical portrayal of ghetto life, the children
turn the tables on the actors, telling of their wartime
suffering and teaching the adults about the healing
possibilities of music and storytelling.
Made just a few years after WWII,
Our Children dares to ask: Is it more therapeutic to
remember or forget?
-- The National Center for Jewish
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