Wir sind Juden aus Breslau

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A cinema documentary by Karin Kaper & Dirk Szuszies.

A highly topical film that sends a powerful message against the growing nationalist and anti-Semitic movements in Europe. A film that shows where a catastrophic isolationist policy towards refugees leads. A film that uses the fates of the protagonists to link the founding of the state of Israel with the experiences of the Holocaust. January 27, 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

They were young, looked to the future with great expectations and felt at home in Wrocław, the city with the third-largest Jewish community in Germany at the time. Then Hitler came to power. From this point on, these adolescents shared the common fate of persecution by Nazi Germany as Jews: some had to flee or go into exile, some survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Deprived of their homeland for good, they escaped in all directions and built a new life for themselves in the USA, England, France and Germany. Quite a few of them played a key role in the founding and establishment of Israel.

14 contemporary witnesses are at the center of the film. They not only recall past Jewish life in Wroclaw. Their later experiences impressively illustrate a multi-faceted generational portrait. Some of them even make the journey back to their former homeland, traveling to present-day Wrocław, where they meet a German-Polish youth group. Especially in times of increasing anti-Semitism, the film builds an emotional bridge from the past to a future that we all have a responsibility to shape.

Protagonists: Esther Adler, Gerda Bikales, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Renate Lasker-Harpprecht, Walter Laqueur, Fritz Stern, Guenter Lewy, David Toren, Abraham Ascher, Wolfgang Nossen, Eli Heyman, Mordechai Rotenberg, Max Rosenberg, Pinchas Rosenberg and a German-Polish youth group from Bremen and Wrocław

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