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 Film