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Southern Premiere How would you feel having your identity torn away from you and discovering that all you ever knew about yourself and your family isn't true? After WWII, many Holocaust survivors chose to hide behind a Catholic identity to guarantee that no future Hitler would endanger their families' future. Today, over 20,000 cases have been registered in Poland alone of Catholic Polish citizens searching for their roots, often with devastating results. This is the story of Poland's "new Jews" who often find themselves severed from their past, shunned by the society in which they have lived all their lives, and belonging suddenly to something they know nothing about.
Together with... PURIM SPIEL Palm Beach Premiere An unemployed Pole's world is turned upside down when he learns that his parents were Jewish and that he's just inherited a fortune from a distant relative living in the U.S.A. It's greed vs. beliefs for this zenophobic, anti-Semitic father and son who believe that only true Poles can improve the country's situation and who despise people different from them.
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