A conversation with the eponymous Bogdan Bialek and the film’s co-directors Lawrence Loewinger (USA) and Michal Jaskulski (Poland) on July 4, 2021. Marek Jezowski and Haim Beliak host this discussion. Greetings from members of the Kielce societies and their descendants including: Ya’akov Kotlicki, Manny Becker, Sydney Machtinger and Noa Marco.
BOGDAN’S JOURNEY: Memory, Reconciliation and Healing
BOGDAN’S JOURNEY: a new documentary film about murder and mayhem–and 70 years later—about memory, reconciliation and healing. Kielce, Poland was the site of Europe’s last pogrom. In 1946, a year after WWII ended, townspeople killed 40 holocaust survivors seeking shelter in a downtown building, and injured 80 more around the city. After the pogrom, as […]
Exclusive Screening, Bogdan’s Journey at Wilshire Blvd Temple
Sometimes a documentary film is the perfect vehicle for difficult issues of discussion. Wilshire Boulevard Temple in conjunction with Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland, Beit Polska and Two Points Film Present an Exclusive Screening of Bogdan’s Journey Bogdan Bialek, a Catholic Pole, journalist, and psychologist engaged the people of Kielce, Poland in addressing the […]
A Voice from the Audience
Copenhagen Jewish Film Festival At a recent screening of Bogdan’s Journey in Copenhagen a voice from the audience captured the mood after the film. The individual’s details — age, gender, Polish — are clues to a profound impact on her. March 8 in Los Angeles at the Music Hall at 7 pm join us for […]