Stanisław Zalewski spent 600 days in captivity and in Nazi concentration camps. Magdalena Żelasko and Michał Kozioł accompanied Zalewski for over three years and researched his memories.

Film and discussion as part of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism.

Documentary / AU 2024 / Director: Magdalena Żelasko / 100 min.

In September 1943, 17-year-old Stanisław Zalewski was arrested in Warsaw as a member of a Polish resistance group and sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp for labour service. From there, he was sent to Mauthausen and finally to the Gusen camp, where the prisoners were forced to work for the German armaments industry under inhumane conditions.
For a long time, Stanisław Zalewski, like many other victims of Nazi terror, remained silent about his painful experiences. It was only after forty years that he began to talk about it, at events, memorial services and in schools, and he still does to this day, even at the age of 99.
Now, for the first time, he has told his stirring life story as a deeply impressive 'ambassador of remembrance' in a feature-length documentary film.

Afterwards, we invite you to a follow-up discussion with the director Magdalena Żelasko.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1003233127?fl=pl&fe=sh

Venue: STRAZEsaal
Admission: from 7.30 pm
Start: 8 pm
Admission: free

The film will be shown in the original Polish language with German subtitles.

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