The Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture joins with the JCCSF in presenting the award-winning documentary "Rotem," on the life of one of two surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighters.
ROTEM
Where: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
When: Wednesday, April 30, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Free and open to the public
To RSVP, please visit the JCCSF Box Office or call 415.292.1233
This documentary tells the remarkable story of Simha Ratajzer-Rotem, nom de guerre "Kazik," a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a Zionist hero in post-WWII Palestine. As a young man, Rotem was the head courier of the Jewish anti-Nazi resistance and risked his life daily, smuggling information and supplies between the ghetto and occupied Warsaw. Today, at age 89, he is one of two living ghetto fighters. Following the war, he helped many displaced Jews immigrate to Palestine with the Bricha. He made Aliyah himself in 1947 and fought in the War of Independence, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, rising to the rank of military general.
2013, 77 min., Poland, In Polish with English subtitles.
Director Bio:
Agnieszka Arnold was born in 1947 and graduated from the University of Warsaw. She has made almost 30 documentary films. In her work she often focuses on the Holocaust (Where is My Older Son, Cain, 1999; Neighbors, 2001) and presents people who have been important for contemporary Poland (Leader, 2005; The Rebellious Sage, 2009).
