The Chronicle of Minsk Ghetto
«The Chronicle of Minsk Ghetto» – the trilogy about the tragedy of Jews on Belorussian land in time of WW2. For the first time after WW2 we have gathered the memories of witnesses, unknown documents, monologs of victims in one film. The episodes of this film were shot in Belarus, USA, Israel, Poland.
The movie premiered on October 21, 2014 (ONT, Belarus). Then it was represented to international audience on RTVI and others TV channels.
In 2013, Bokun's film studio began filming the Chronicle of the Minsk Ghetto trilogy. The main goal is to tell people how scary it is to die for skin color and eye shape.
We believe that if you constantly remind people of the horrors of war, no one dares to repeat it. We will continue to show this tragedy through the eyes of eyewitnesses while it is still possible.
So far, the films has received financial backing from Climes Conference, and also from individual investors and supportive organizations from various countries.
This is a story that deserves to be told, we are therefore seeking your assistance to ensure that this story can not only be told, but also heard and never forgotten by this or future generations.
...Everyone knows that there was a ghetto in Minsk. But this film gives viewers a chance to see how it was. The film has a very strong dramatic component. Reconstructed events in conjunction with graphics and archival footage create incredibly strong emotional impression. It helps to realize the horror of what was happening...
Andrzej Brzoza, programming director of the 5th International Film Festival of historical and military films in Warsaw (Poland)
...Ghetto still hurts. There is a terrifying episode – at the other end of the Earth, in the United States, a hefty man cries and shows us four pairs of children's shoes. This is all that remains of the four Jewish children who died in Minsk ghetto. He has found the shoes of his children in the ruins of his native city returned from the war. More than 70 years have passed. Even in another country the family saves – as pieces of a broken heart – sandals, slippers of those whose bones have decayed long ago...
Svetlana Shidlovskaya, news agency "Minsk-news", October 23, 2015
...I am eternally grateful to creators of the film. It has a great moral value in an objective evaluation of the underground Jewish groups, truly telling the history of the partisan movement. The role of the Jews - prisoners of ghettoes – was unfairly belittled or even silenced in the Soviet press. I am also grateful to all the authors of memoirs of the partisan struggle, that mention the names of my family members in the Minsk ghetto underground organization...
Esther Lupyan (USA), Review of TV-audience published in the newspaper "Aviv", February 19, 2016
...Deeply impressed by viewing the film. The combination of documentary and played episodes leaves a strong impression. I was born after the war. And I didn’t know much about the events... I thank all the creators for the truthful, exciting film. I wish them new success, new discoveries about Jewish heroes...
Felix Pildus (Israel), Review of TV-audience published in the newspaper "Aviv", February 19, 2016
