Zegota
Subtitle: Council for aid to Jews in occupied Poland, 1942-1945
By: directed by Sy Rotter
Contributors: Wallach, Eli, 1915-; Tomaszewski, Irene; Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation
Publisher: Documentaries International Film & Video Foundation
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Jews; Rescue; Underground movements; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; History; Rada Pomocy Żydom "Żegota"
Description: Frustrated by the Allied Governments ̕rejection of active intervention, the exiled Polish government in London formed an organization called Council to Aid the Jews, code-named Zegota, to rescue Jews in German-occupied Europe. Zegota participants, Jewish survivors, and Polish and Jewish historians recall and reflect on the unparalleled crime of genocide committed by Nazi occupation forces, and of the extraordinary courage of people who risked - and some of whom sacrificed - their lives trying to save Jewish fugitives.
Notes: Contains interviews first recorded for the 1992 film Zegota : a time to remember.

Includes bibliographical references in discussion guide.

Narrated by Eli Wallach ; written by Irene Tomaszewski ; music by Robert Nowak and Michael Momm.

VHS format.