Teresa Toranska

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.

It is 2001. At a private journalism school, Professor Edward Wnuk-Lipiński asks seminar participants if they know who Albin Siwak was. They do not. Only one person has heard his name. For these young people, it is already history, and not necessarily something they need to learn about.

For years, on the evening of December 12, on the anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland, demonstrations have been held outside Wojciech Jaruzelski's house. On such an evening in 2000, Teresa Torańska and her film crew pay him a visit.