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2 Having won 6 awards including the Southeastern Emmy Burning Questions is a powerful, independent documentary which chronicles the journey of my father and myself as we travel back to Poland to explore his World War II memories as a Polish Catholic survivor of the Warsaw Uprising and Bergen Belsen Nazi concentration camp. During WWII, Poland lost six million of its citizens. Three million Jewish Poles and, less known, three million Christian Poles perished in concentration camps, forced labor, public executions and combat. Burning Questions examines the rebuilding of a broken past through the journey of my father, a seasoned network news cameraman, and myself, Mishael Porembski. In Poland I meet my father's family for the first time and he learns to face his past. Burning Questions also looks at the present-day relationship between Poland's Christians and Jews as they live together with this painful history. The concentration camps which swallowed up the flower of European Jewry were first built to imprison Polish intellectuals and priests. The fact is, some 3 million Catholic Poles - fully half the number of Jews murdered by Nazis - died at the hands of Hitler's bloody legions. Even in the flickering light cast by the furnace fires of Auschwitz and Treblinka, the story of non-Jewish Poland under the Nazis has been left largely untold. It's widely known that some Poles were happy to see Hitler solve their "Jewish Problem". Less well known is the fact that many other Poles risked their lives to shelter Jews. And they died together in the millions - friends of Jews and anti-Semites alike. Burning Questions plunges into this stormy history with an open and quick-witted perspective. It's an unusual breed of documentary - quirky and idiosyncratic, personal but with global meaning. It's an exploration of the human heart from the perspective of one searching soul. continued on Page 2 |
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