• Title:
• Saved By Deportation

• Director:
• Slawomir Grunberg

• English, Yiddish, Russian, Polish and Uzbek w/ English subtitles

• USA, 75 minutes

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1  

World Premiere

In 2003 the Washington Jewish Film Festival presented in its inaugural Works-In-Progress program, a 10-minute clip from a documentary film project “Saved By Deportation.”  We are proud to present the World Premiere of the completed film, which brings back to DC Co-Producer Robert Podgursky and Director Slawomir Grünberg.

In 1940, a year before the Nazis started deporting Jews to death camps, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of approximately 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. As cruel as Stalin's deportations were, ultimately they largely saved Jewish lives, for the deportees constituted the overwhelming majority of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi Holocaust. Saved by Deportation not only tells this story, but it re-traces the path Asher and Schifra Sharf traveled more than 60 years ago from Poland to Siberia to the former Soviet states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. This little-known story of survival is both a harrowing adventure and an affirmation of human goodness during times of great darkness.

CO-SPONSORED BY Yiddish of Greater Washington and Generation After

Special Guests: Slawomir Grünberg, director and Robert Podgursky, co-producer

Read an interview with co-producer Robert Podgursky on the WJFFblog.

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• Learn more at the film's web page