Unzere kinder

Our Children (Yiddish: אונדזערע קינדער, Unzere kinder; Polish: Nasze dzieci) is a 1946 semi-documentary Yiddish-language film created in Polish People's Republic. It was directed by Natan Gross [pl] and Saul Goskind [pl] based on the script by Rachel Auerbach and Binem Heller.[1] Its frame story is the interaction of Jewish orphans who survived the Holocaust with popular Polish comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher[2][3] After the premiere the film was banned in Poland.[1][4] In 1951 an English-language dubbing was released under the title It Will Never Happen Again,[5]

  1. ^ a b Marc Caplan, "Too Soon? Yiddish Humour and the Holocaust in Postwar Poland", In: Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust, 2020, p.47
  2. ^ Ira Konigsberg, "Our Children and the Limits of Cinema: Early Jewish Responses to the Holocaust", Film Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1 (1998), pp. 7-19, doi:10.2307/1213354
  3. ^ אונדזערע קינדער" (הילדים שלנו) - במאים: נתן גרוס ושאול גוסקינד", a review at Yad Vashem
  4. ^ "Tadeusz Lubelski: Kino żydowskie w Polsce. Michał Waszyński i inni"
  5. ^ It Will Never Happen Again at IMDb