Marek Edelman… and there was love in the Ghetto

“Why does nobody ask me if there was love in the ghetto? Why is nobody interested?” – so asked Marek Edelman, resistance fighter and the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, shortly before his death in 2009. In this film, he answers that very question: Good and beauty did exist in the hell of the ghetto. And there was love, too. Marek Edelman, activist, surgeon, and former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is interviewed by director Jolanta Dylewska about a seldom-discussed part of life leading up to the Holocaust: love. Sharing stories from his memoir And There Was Love in the Ghetto, Edelman ruminates on the redemptive nature of passion, romance and lust in one of history’s darkest hours. Eminent filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, lends her writing talents to the sensuous reenactments directed by another legendary filmmaker, Andrzej Wajda. A captivating look into the lives of men and women, still hoping, dreaming and clinging to one another as the world burns around them.

Presentation by Marta Simó.

Born CCM – Presentation by debat: Marta Simó, Daniela Rosenfeld

Marta Simó
PhD in Sociology by the UAB with the thesis “Memory of the Holocaust in the Spanish State”. She is currently working as a researcher and advisor in several international and national projects on Teaching and Memory of the Holocaust, Human Rights and Other Genocides and Intercultural Education. In addition, she is Associate Professor both at the UB, in the Department of Education, and at the UAB in the Department of Sociology, where she is a member of the ISOR group. Her most recent publications in this field are the chapter on Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust.