Who will write our history
Resistance comes in many forms
Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto.
With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived.
The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.
Written by Katahdin Productions
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Roberta Grossman
Roberta Grossman
Katahdin Productions, Match&Spark
Nancy Spielberg
Dyanna Taylor
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Gosia Grzyb CSI, SKF
2018
90 minutes
Festivals & awards
Ferrara Film Festival 2019
Won Golden Dragon Best Documentary World
J Film Festival 2019
Won Audience Award
Miami Jewish Film Festival 2019
Won Audience Award
Twin Cities Film Fest 2018
Won Best Documentary
Golden Trailer Awards 2019
Nominated Best Independent Trailer
A clandestine group of journalists, scholars, and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto defied the Nazis with the ultimate weapon – the truth – and risked everything so that their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.
Now, for the first time, their story is told in the documentary featuring the voices of three-time Academy Award® nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody.
Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto.
With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived.
The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.