If you missed this movie at the Seattle Polish Film Festival a few years ago, this is your chance. In this Ukrainian Polish co-production, directed by Olesia Morhunets-Isaienko takes the ‘Carol of the Bells’ is a symbol of the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the Polish city of Stanisławów (now Stanislaviv in
If you missed this movie at the Seattle Polish Film Festival two years ago, this is your chance. In this Ukrainian Polish co-production, directed by Olesia Morhunets-Isaienko takes the ‘Carol of the Bells’ is a symbol of the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the Polish city of Stanisławów (now Stanislaviv in Ukraine)
Quiver Distribution and Fathom Events present the movie “Irena’s Vow / Przysięga Ireny” directed by Louise Archambault. This Canadian-Polish WWII drama tells the story of Irena Gut Opdyke who risked everything to save the lives of thirteen Jews — including one unborn — during the Nazi atrocities against Poland. If all that’s necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing, Irena shows us how one good person, then
The 2023 Seattle International Film Festival is at our doors. This year, SIFF will show two Polish films, “Pianoforte” and “Filip” and also an American movie “Late Bloomers” with a Polish immigrant as one of the main characters. “Filip“, directed by Michal Kwiecinski (“Tomorrow We’re Going To The Movies” 2007, “Extras” 2006), breaks every film cliché about the Nazi era and the Holocaust. It is an unexpectedly sharp, jagged character study about a handsome young Polish Jew
The Seattle Polish Film Festival presents a special screening at SIFF Cinema of the movie The Wedding Day / Wesele (2021), directed by Wojtek Smarzowski and starring Robert Więckiewicz, Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Chyra and Arkadiusz Jakubik. The movie takes on some fundamental issues related to the Polish national character and skeletons in the closet, both in the subject matter and in the symbolism. The Polish title Wesele is of course loaded, as it is the
The Holocaust Museum LA with collaboration of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in LA presents a webinar How a Polish Diplomat Saved Jewish Lives. Ellen Meth never knew the name of the man who saved her life. She was just a child when she and her father, Jewish refugees who had fled to Turkey in 1940, were declared “Catholic” by a diplomat at the Polish Consulate in Istanbul, allowing them safe passage
The Polish Cultural Center presents the chamber music concert Music of Polish-Jewish Composers, that includes works of four composers: Roman Ryterband (1914-1979), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), Simon Laks (1901-1983) and Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948). The concert featuring Magdalena Molendowska (soprano) and Julia Samojło (piano) has the following program: Roman Ryterband: Three Hebrew Songs (1938) Mieczysław Weinberg: Gypsy Bible / Biblia Cygańska – songs to poems by Julian Tuwim op. 57 (1950s) Roman Ryterband: Variations on a folk song for piano solo (selection,
The Seattle Jewish Film Festival presents the film about Stanisław Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician (2020, 102′), directed by Thor Klein. Dr. Ulam was a Polish-American who participated in the WWII Manhattan Project and later made crucial theoretical and design contributions to the development of the hydrogen bomb. His family in Poland perished in the Holocaust. Stanisław Ulam was a brilliant mathematician and a member of the famous Polish Lwów School of Mathematics, active in
Jeannie Opdyke Smith shares her mother’s incredible journey of courage and resilience. A true story of how one Polish Catholic teenager saved over a dozen Jews during the Holocaust. Irene’s story became a Broadway play in the nationally acclaimed production “Irena’s Vow” and her memoir, “In My Hands” is used in classrooms across the country. . The Israeli Holocaust Commission named Irene one of the Righteous Among the Nations. She was presented with the Israel Medal
The Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival present the special Holocaust Commemoration Day with the movie My Name Is Sara screening for four days, from January 25 to 28, and the discussion panel on January 28. The movie directed by Steven Oritt and starring Zuzanna Surowy in the title role is based on a survival story of 13-years old Sara Góralnik. The Q&A panel with Sara Góralnik’s
The New York Jewish Film Festival presents the film about Stanisław Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician (2020, 102′), directed by Thor Klein. Dr. Ulam was a Polish-American who participated in the WWII Manhattan Project and later made crucial theoretical and design contributions to the development of the hydrogen bomb. His family in Poland perished in the Holocaust. Stanisław Ulam was a brilliant mathematician and a member of the famous Polish Lwów School of Mathematics, active
UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee invites you to a lecture Women and the Writing of Polish Jewish History before the Holocaust by Prof. Natalia Aleksiun-Madrzak. The lecture discusses social and cultural backgrounds of Polish Jewish female historians and their contributions as a minority historians, public intellectuals and Jewish women finding their place during interwar period in Poland, 1918-1939. Dr. Aleksiun-Madrzak is a Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Touro College in New York, with a