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Our today's interviewee:
Stefan Szlachtycz (born in 1930 in Kraków) is a film, TV and theater director. His father was interned for a year in Hungary as a Polish September Campaign soldier. When he returned to Kraków, the family moved to the Kazimierz District of the city, where they were the only Christian family in a Jewish street. In March 1941, the Blue Policemen and one German officer came to the flat of the Szlachtycz family. They inspected their documents, sealed the door and ordered to stay inside. In the span of two hours, all Jews from the Kazimierz District were deported to a newly created ghetto in Kraków. Young Stefan Szlachtycz and his friends ran to Piłsudski Bridge to watch the Jews being deported to the Podgórze ghetto by the Germans. The Poles were deeply disturbed by this event. No one was ridiculing the Jews as it was portrayed in Spielberg's "Schindler's List." The majority of the Poles suspected that soon they were going to share the same fate.
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11 сен 2024
