Series: Pearls of Wisdom
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Virtual Only: Streaming March 31-April 13
In May 1943, Szmul (Shmuel) Zygielbojm, a member of the Polish government-in-exile, dies under suspicious circumstances in German-occupied Warsaw. This leads a young British journalist to follow the coroner’s investigation, revealing the significance of Zygielbojm’s mission in Great Britain: to convince the apathetic Allies to intervene in the Holocaust being perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
A trade-union activist and Socialist politician, Zygielbojm was a man of action. When the Nazis ordered the establishment of a Jewish ghetto, he pushed his Bund colleagues to refuse and inspired so much public resistance that the ghetto wasn’t established for another year, when he went into exile in the Netherlands and England.
A true historical tragedy, THE DEATH OF ZYBIELBOJM is a brutal condemnation of indifference and inaction and a timely reminder that we must always take evil seriously—and act against it.
Director Bio: View on IMDB
Ryszard Brylski graduated from the Department of Graphic Art at the Lodz Fine Art Academy and the Department of Directing at the Lodz Film School. He is a director and writer, known for ZUREK (2003) and DEBORAH (1995), which he adapted from Marek Sołtysik’s novel about the forbidden love between a Polish Christian and Jewish girl during a restless summer in 1939.
Outreach Partner: Seattle Polish Film Festival
