Jewish Film Festival Screens 'Who Will Write Our History'

This summer, Tuesday is the night for Jewish-themed films at the Southampton Arts Center (SAC). All the movies to be screened celebrate the Jewish experience as a part of the Southampton Jewish Film Festival, which began July 9.
The next film, on July 30, is “Who Will Write Our History,” a documentary written, produced and directed by Roberta Grossman and executive produced by Nancy Spielberg (Steven’s sister).
The film takes place in November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, when a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vowed to defeat the Nazi’s lies and propaganda, not with guns or fists, but with pen and paper. 
“Who Will Write Our History” tells their story as a feature documentary. It mixes writings from the Oyneg Shabes archive with new interviews, rarely seen footage and realistic dramatizations that transport viewers inside the Warsaw Ghetto to show how the resistance fighters defied the Nazis with the ultimate weapon—truth—and risked everything to ensure their archive would survive the war, even if they did not.

The movie begins at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $15 at brownpapertickets.com and at the door of Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton Village. Other films coming up include:
August 6: “Moritz Daniel Oppenheim”
August 13: “The Dybbuk”
August 20: “Monsieur Mayonnaise” 
For more information, visit southamptonjewishfilmfestival.com.