“Among Neighbors”: A Cinematic Journey into a Suppressed Memory
Film screening and conversation with director Yoav Potash to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
The film “Among Neighbors” is a cinematic journey into a memory that was repressed, and into testimonies no one wanted to hear. In a Polish town where Jews and Poles lived together for hundreds of years, all traces of Jewish life were erased. Now, the last eyewitness and the only Holocaust survivor from the town reveals a chilling story about an act not carried out by the Nazis, but by the Polish neighbors.
Through stunning animation and intimate interviews, the film brings forth memories and deafening silences, exploring the complex relationship between love and betrayal, fear and compassion. As the past is rewritten and history becomes a political tool, “Among Neighbors” returns to those who were there — to those who saw, to those who hid, and to those who, despite everything, chose to speak out.
