From Hell to Hell (1997)

A Film from the Artur Brauner Collection at Our Library

Scene from the movie “From Hell to Hell” — Scene from the movie From Hell to Hell
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Shortly before her deportation, the Polish Jew Helena entrusts her daughter Fela to a childless neighbor. When she comes to pick her up after the war, the two women enter into a fierce battle. The conflict between the local Polish population and the Jewish survivors about the return of residential property escalates into a pogrom.

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The W. M. Blumenthal Academy is marked in green

Where

W. M. Blumenthal Academy, Library
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
Postal address: Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin

This German–Belarusian co-production portrays the Kielce Pogrom of 4 July 1946, in which forty-two Jews were murdered. The deadly riots were a clear signal to the Shoah survivors to leave the country. "You are murderers! I hate and despise you!" Fela shouts after her Polish foster mother at the end of the film.

Starring Anja Kling. Directed by Dmitri Astrachan.

From Hell to Hell

Kielce pogrom

In the city of Kielce, Poland on 4 July 1946 there was an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community centre's gathering of refugees by the Polish Communist armed forces.