Roberta Grossman's 'Who Will Write Our History' Premieres on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Roberta Grossman's documentary 'Who Will Write Our History' premiered on January 27, 2019, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Distributed by Wanted Cinema and Feltrinelli Real Cinema, the film is based on Samuel D. Kassow's book and combines documentary footage with dramatized scenes to depict the resistance of the Polish Jewish community during the Nazi occupation. It focuses on the Oyneg Shabes secret organization, led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, which collected testimonies, poems, songs, and diaries to counter Nazi propaganda. The archive was buried in the Warsaw Ghetto and later unearthed. In 1999, the Oyneg Shabes archive was inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The film features voices of Adrien Brody and Joan Allen. Grossman's work emphasizes the power of culture and memory against intolerance and denial.