Willy Lindwer showing his movie "Marek Edelman: Last Hero of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"

10 November 2009

The second lecture of the

Ninth Herbert Berman Memorial Series

Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 23 Heshvan 5770 10.00 AM

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 13 Tel Hai Street

Willy Lindwer

 Will show his documentary film:

"Marek Edelman: Last Hero of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"

60 minutes, 1988, with English voice-over

There will be a short introduction by Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, director of research the Institute of the World Jewish Congress

In this documentary, the sole surviving member of the Jewish high command looks back on the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, a unique event in Jewish as well as non-Jewish history: for the first time the Jews took up arms against the Nazis. In 1943 the remaining 50,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto realized that there was no hope that any of them would survive the holocaust. Dr. Marek Edelman, who never left Poland, was a cardiologist in Lodz where in the 1980s he played a leading role in the then underground trade union Solidarity. He recently passed away.

Dutch documentary filmmaker and television producer Willy Lindwer, now living in Jerusalem, has won the Emmy and many other awards for his documentaries. His films cover a wide range of topics about the Holocaust, the Middle East, art and many other topics. His films and series have been distributed world-wide, and many of these have been co-produced with leading international television and film production companies.