Poland versus History

France, Poland2025documentary70'AfterimageSound of Music

The pogrom in Jedwabne in 1941 was a white spot in post-war Polish history for a long time. It was not until Jan Tomasz Gross’s book ‘Neighbours’, published 60 years later, that the public debate on Polish-Jewish relations during the occupation was launched. The film shows how this subject divided contemporary Poles and was appropriated by historical politics. We are revisiting the facts that many have tried to deny and watching the laborious and painful process of the Polish society coming to terms with its own history, which was sometimes far from heroic and where not everyone was a victim.