Who Will Write Our History

"Who Will Write Our History" is a docudrama directed by Roberta Grossman

who co-wrote the film with Samuel Kassow based on his novel of the same

name.

The film tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and a group called the Oyneg Shabes, 

the secret archive he created and directed in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing,

photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive contains eyewitness accounts

documenting not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they

were forced to live. Most interesting is the fact that the actual films shown (obtained

through the British archives)  were taken by German soldiers so the audience sees

the torture and inhumane acts thrust upon these vulnerable and defenseless individuals

through the camera lenses of their captors.

This is a review of a film that will contain no rating for it is not entertainment in any

sense but, instead, a history of man's inhumanity to man and how those, faced

with almost certain death, attempted to guarantee that the outside world (from which

they were excluded) would some day learn the horrors they faced and the evils they

encountered. As with all such acts of intolerance and terror, one must ask "why", and

sadly it is a question that still remains unanswered even as of today.