Barbara Góra. Dad asked me if I wanted to leave the ghetto

A personal portrait of the Warsaw Ghetto Survivor. Barbara Góra was born as Irena Hochberg in 1932 in Warsaw to an assimilated Jewish family. Her mother's family was religious, unlike her father's family. In 1940, the Hochberg family moved to the ghetto. After some time, the heroine was led to the so-called Aryan side, where, with the help of different people, she often changed her hiding places. So did her parents and sister, who also managed to survive. The etude explores the children's experience of the Holocaust (protection of the children by their parents from the cruelty of the outside world), as well as the selectivity of memory and people who are the depositories and "facilitators" of the memory of the witness to the history today. Barbara Góra died during the preparation of the material in February 2023.
Script and direction: Józef Markiewicz
Cinematography: Piotr Boruszkowski
Editing: Piotr Boruszkowski
Cooperation: Paulina Błaszczykiewicz
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