"A mother’s tragic experiences of war and loss, carried forward by her son."
2020-01-22en
Documentary
In this short film, poet and holocaust survivor John Guzlowski bears witness to his parents’ survival of Nazi slave labor camps. More than a personal remembrance, the poem carries his mother’s plea — “tell them we weren’t the only ones” — a call to acknowledge the countless lives scarred by war, displacement, and silence. Through Guzlowski’s measured reading, the film becomes both intimate and collective: a meditation on inherited trauma, the duty of memory, and the fragile line between history and forgetting.
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Producer
Alex Zhort
Director
Alex Zhort
Writer
John Guzlowski
poetryholocaust (shoah)world war iihistoricalpolish