78 min. | Documentary | NR
Plays Thursday, May 10 at 5:00 PM - Part of the Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival
Filmmaker David Blumenfeld thought he would be documenting a piece of family history as he filmed the descendants of his grandfather’s shtetl, Ivansk, as they restored a long-neglected Jewish cemetery. Little did anyone know that unearthing the past in one small corner of Poland would ultimately unleash a national scandal, sparked by a single word.
Supported by the University of Michigan’s Copernicus Program in Polish Studies.