Ludwik Górski. Sometimes I think to myself: if I live, it is at the expense that they died

Portrait of the Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto - Ludwik Górski. Ludwik Górski admits he can hardly tell whether his memories (he remembers, for example, being taken by a rickshaw to the Umschlagplatz) are his own or ones acquired through intergenerational transmission. The short film touches on key issues for this generation of survivors - who experienced the Holocaust as children - such as the lack of factual memory of their stay in the ghetto; survival by leaving the ghetto; the concealment of Jewish identity on the so-called Aryan side. Another important aspect of the childhood experience of the Holocaust is the attempts of adults to protect children - which in the post-war period also translated into a reluctance to tell children about wartime experiences.
Script and direction: Józef Markiewicz
Cinematography: Paulina Błaszczykiewicz/ Piotr Boruszkowski
Editing: Piotr Boruszkowski
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