Who Will Write Our History

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Who Will Write Our History

2019

1h 35m

Documentary

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In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vows to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda, not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

09/18/2019

It's really quite striking. First of all, the actual content of the film is devastating... [And] it's not a documentary. I think we need a new term for what this is.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

03/06/2019

2.5/4

The film has problems, despite the inarguable worthiness of the material.

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

02/15/2019

A-

I'm not a fan of reenactments in documentaries, especially when, as here, the real-life footage is so searing. But the staged sequences are tastefully done... This film is itself an important act of historical reclamation.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

01/27/2022

B

An emotionally moving, sobering and exhausting Holocaust documentary.

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Betsy Bozdech

AWFJ.org

10/26/2021

Grossman's documentary is a powerful piece of filmmaking. Hearing Auerbach's own words (read by Joan Allen) and learning what the Oyneg Shabes contributors risked to make sure that history never forgot the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto...

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Cate Marquis

AWFJ.org

10/26/2021

Director Roberta Grossman's moving documentary is especially well-suited to the task...

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05/07/2019

Amazingly well-done film about an amazing chapter in history.

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05/03/2019

always talking and making movies about the holocaust 😒. what about any other genocide that happen through out history. what about the holodomer?

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05/01/2019

Such a powerful and important film. Watch however you can!

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04/24/2019

Extremely well done and very impactful. I was truly moved and so happy to have heard this story.

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02/11/2019

Profound documentary about the writers and archivists who struggled to preserve the culture and simultaneous destruction of their community,the warsaw ghetto.

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Rachela Auerbach

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In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vows to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda, not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.

Director: Roberta Grossman
Producer: Roberta Grossman
Screenwriter: Roberta Grossman
Distributor: Abramorama
Production Co: Katahdin Productions, Match&Spark
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 18, 2019, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): May 1, 2019
Release Date (Streaming): May 4, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $117.4K
Runtime: 1h 35m