This Yiddish language documentary intended to raise money for the Medem Sanitorium in Poland, a facility where poor, urban Jewish children could spend a month or two in the country. Decried as communist at the time, copies were smuggled out to be shown in France and the United States. It was funded in part by the Jewish labor unions in Poland. As we all know, all unions are communists, and all charity government seizure of wealth.
It's mostly children: children awkwardly reciting speeches asking for support, children at play, children reciting poems. It also has Academician-style editing at the beginning, showing the poverty that these children lived in.
The facilities of the sanitorium were looted when the Germans invaded in 1939. The Jewish communities kept it limping on until 1942, when the entire staff and children present were seized and sent to a concentration camp. Some of the children who had been to the sanitorium took place in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April of 1943. I don't know what the position of the current Polish government is, but I did hear a Polish official, when asked about it, announce that it was a general uprising of the brave Polish people.
It's mostly children: children awkwardly reciting speeches asking for support, children at play, children reciting poems. It also has Academician-style editing at the beginning, showing the poverty that these children lived in.
The facilities of the sanitorium were looted when the Germans invaded in 1939. The Jewish communities kept it limping on until 1942, when the entire staff and children present were seized and sent to a concentration camp. Some of the children who had been to the sanitorium took place in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April of 1943. I don't know what the position of the current Polish government is, but I did hear a Polish official, when asked about it, announce that it was a general uprising of the brave Polish people.