"Witnesses": A film depicting the lives of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust

Today, on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day and Heroism), we present a unique documentary featuring former child prisoners of ghettos and concentration camps sharing memories of their childhood. 

The film's uniqueness is further highlighted by its director, 17-year-old student Grigory Muromtsev, grandson of Oleg Efimovich Mortkovich, head of the Moscow Public Organization of Jewish Former Prisoners of Ghettos and Nazi Concentration Camps.

The parents of Oleg Efimovich perished in the Vinnitsa region in 1943, while he was hidden in a cellar throughout the Fascist occupation by Natalya Fedorovna Bondar, who was later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.

The documentary also features the renowned playwright and screenwriter Alexander Gelman. The Gelman family was deported to the Bershad ghetto in Transnistria. Of the 14 family members of the writer, only he and his father survived.

The International Public Organization of Jewish Former Child Prisoners of Ghettos and Nazi Concentration Camps is a member of the EAJC and is dedicated to providing medical, social, and psychological support to former prisoners, as well as preserving and passing on the living memory of the Holocaust to the younger generation.

In these challenging times, the organization has established an emergency response headquarters to maintain constant contact with former prisoners, many of whom require professional nursing care.

You can support these efforts and make a contribution to the organization via holocaustwitnesses.com

Our prospects for a promising future depend entirely on preserving our memory and continuously learning the lessons of our shared history.