Shtetl

Tells the homecoming story of two elderly Polish-American Jews who return to their families' small village from which most of the Jews had been sent to Treblinka's gas chambers. Captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some betrayers, some saviors. Interviews Polish Jews in America and Israel who were holocaust survivors or emigrated in the late 1930's.

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"Excerpts from the documentary that tells the homecoming story of Marian Marzynski and Nathan Kaplan, two elderly Polish-American Jews. Returning to their families' small village, from which most of the Jews had been sent to the Treblinka gas chambers, the pilgrims face old neighbors, some of whom were betrayers and some, saviors. The program also interviews Polish Jews in America and Israel who were holocaust survivors or who emigrated in the late 1930s."
"Tells the homecoming story of two elderly Polish-American Jews who return to their families' small village from which most of the Jews had been sent to Treblinka's gas chambers. Captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some betrayers, some saviors. Interviews Polish Jews in America and Israel who were holocaust survivors or emigrated in the late 1930's."@en
"Tells the homecoming story of two elderly Polish-American Jews who return to their families' small village from which most of the Jews had been sent to Treblinka's gas chambers. Captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some betrayers, some saviors. Interviews Polish Jews in America and Israel who were holocaust survivors or emigrated in the late 1930's."
"Produced over the course of four years and shot in Poland, Israel, and the United States, Shtetl looks at Jewish/Polish relationships in both the past and the present. The film begins when filmmaker Marian Marzynski accompanies Nathan Kaplan, a 70 year-old Jewish man from Chicago, to Brańsk, the Polish Shtetl where Kaplan's father was born. There he meets Zbyszek, a young Polish historian with a passion for Jewish history, and their encounter with the realities of the past begins."
"Marian Marzynski and Nathan Kaplan return to the Polish village where they grew up. Captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors including betrayers and saviors. Interviews Polish Jews in America and Israel who were holocaust survivors or emigrated in the late 1930's."@en
"Documentary takes a bold and illuminating look at Jewish/Polish relationships in both the past and the present."
"In 1942, 2,500 Jews from Bransk, Poland died in Treblinka's gas chambers. Their shtetl died with them. Uncover the true story of Jewish life in Bransk before and after WWII. Starting as a pilgrimage by a Holocaust survivor from Bransk to uncover his roots, the quest is joined by a young Polish Gentile historian from Bransk who is also driven to discover the mystery of the last Jewish community."@en
"On a quest to discover their roots, two Polish-American Jews return to the small village of Bransk, Poland. Joined by a Polish Gentile, they attempt to uncover the true story of Jewish life in the shtetl before and after November 8, 1942 when the village's 2,500 Jews were transported to the gas chambers of Treblinka."@en