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To Stay Alive
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DIRECTED By: Piotr Zarębski
SCREENPLAy: Jacek Indelak
CINEMATOGRAPHy: Piotr Zarębski
EDITING: Henryk Szczepański
MUSIC: Zofia Kucharska-Kowalik
(sound), Va pensiero (Giuseppe Verdi);
Mein Jidisze Mame (trad., performed
by Rabin Attia); Elmerachim
(prayer; traditional music;
performed by Rabin Attia)
PRODUCTION DESIGNER:
Krzysztof Sułek
PRODUCER: Piotr Zarębski
PRODUCTION: Telewizja Polska S.A.,
Komitet Kinematografii,
Marta Tv & Film
LENGTH: 58 min
LANGUAGE: Polish
PRODUCTION DATE: 2000
FEATURING: Lucie Cytryn-Bialer,
Edith Grycman, Cecile Platt, Felicja
Żytnicka, Maurice Errera, Josef Gotlib Lucie Cytryn-Bialer, survivor of the Łódź ghetto, recalls the
story of her life, which she dedicated to the commemoration
and families of R.J. Lerer, J.I. Liron,
M.S. Pacanowski of her younger brother Abraham Cytryn, victim of the Łódź
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED: ghetto, and her daughter, who died in the 1980s after a long
from the collection of The Józef illness. She dedicates her books to the memory of those two
Piłsudski Regional and Municipal persons. Her fight to commemorate her brother resulted in
Public Library of Łódź and private
publication of his poems and notes from the ghetto. Only
archives of Lucie Cytryn-Bialer
and Marta TV & Film a part of Abramek's notebooks from the ghetto survived and
they were in very bad condition, but even those remnants tes-
tify to the great talent of the young poet.
T.M.
FILMING LOCATIONS IN ŁÓDŹ: Lodz Fabryczna station, 10 Legionów
Street, Radegast station (36) Wolności Square, the Jewish cemetery
at Bracka Street (35) Hotel Grand.
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