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'Who Will Write Our History': Documenting Those Who Documented The Warsaw Ghetto

In this stirring documentary, the secret archive maintained by members of the Warsaw Ghetto comes to vivid life through historical footage and reenactments.
<em>Who Will Write Our History</em> employs reenactors to tell its stories, including that of (l to r) Ora Lewin (Roberta Grossman), Abraham Lewin (Wojciech Zielinski) and Marta Lewin (Julia Lewenfisz-Gorka).

Although it's about the Warsaw Ghetto, nearly all of whose inhabitants were murdered, Who Will Write Ouris a tale of survival. So it's fitting that the documentary begins with the 1946 return to Warsaw of Rachel Auerbach, who was among the one percent of Polish Jews the Nazis didn't manage to kill between 1939 and 1945.

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