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let me introduce myself i'm a health noack a polish filmmaker my grandfather was an ethnic german from salacious i recently found a small treasure trove in our house and cuddle pizza and it changed my life. that's my grandfather alloys can store we had a special relationship he was an obstetrician in fact he brought me into the world

. there was one thing about his past that really fascinated me he served 4 years in the during world war 2 in school we heard about the atrocities committed by german soldiers and every sunday i eat potato soup was one of them. it all started when i found this orange box 120 old artful photos in 2 rolls of film i thought these must belong to grandpa and i wondered what secrets they might hold. i decided to talk to my mother ana she's always his daughter she's a doctor like everyone in our family. just did you see all his photos from the war

or just the ones with him. yes not just the ones with him but was the group photos with other soldiers standing next to cars and maybe a tank and there was a photo of a field hospital it was not a. terrorist attack i want to find out what grandpa did during the war what do you think about that one of this completely misses. and you know i don't know maybe some people need to do something like that but i certainly don't i'm i didn't pester my parents with questions about the past 2 years i meant on his middle just well my mother maybe but not my father he hated that but then you don't. live in those and. that's not unusual my mother belongs to the generation that was raised to not ask questions about the war. at all was not how we should look at home and she didn't talk about it much and when i did it was usually after a few strong drinks of

a mother who i wasn't sure magic experience and it really affected his character with that. i think that if you start digging up the past it could be a sobering experience. and maybe it's just better to forget it was some of them to muslims but if you really are that serious then you'll just have to go ahead. to the systems of which. well not all have to do it on my own my grandfather pasted most of his photos neatly into an album but not the one what's the story behind these pictures. here's a list of the places where he served during the war and the 1939 map of europe. french helmets a field hospital. it says here surgical training in france. or

. to be photographed this russian girl did he like her or was she the 1st prisoner of war he saw on. a rabbi being taken away jewish gravestones as tank traps. a burning synagogue images of war and war crimes. i can see why he didn't put these into the family album. there were nearly 60 pictures of the warsaw uprising in 1944. but not always could not possibly have been in warsaw at that time he was in a military hospital 600 kilometers away recovering from shrapnel wounds that's confirmed in a letter that his mother sent him. my dear son i have sent you a rosary because you have lots of time to pray now may the mother of god heal your

wounds and give you comfort because your own mother cannot be there with you. my father's family is polish some of them refused to come to his wedding they had fought against the germans and now my father was marrying one. he's kept track of the family history on both sides when grandpa signed up for his military disability pension my father helped him with the paperwork. to join grandpa talk about the war are you sure i think i was the only want to talk to about it with you he had some photos from poland and france. which photos i think it's no one's new york in shock that box. over there if you want to look at the open what are you talking about with that box has nothing to do with your grandpa otto is one of those who longs to my family.

wow i got it completely wrong. this is my great uncle and like your ship on skis elec for short he's my father's uncle he fought in the polish underground a kind of hero that we read about in school. the uncle who fought the enemy. who sent secret messages. and bravely led his troops. his code name was cure or heart like in a game of cards if snapshots from the war from the german point of view for one of these photos have to do with elec did he steal them disposal to be taken photos from a german. he didn't steal them. i don't know how he got them. so

just by to find out. i was so look at going to go right at most. fortunately elect sister christina is still alive my father calls her and tells her i want to meet her. maybe she knows something about the photos and can tell me more about helen. she lives in just a hole of the city was occupied by the germans just 2 days after they invaded poland. elex resistance group was based here. i think i'm on the right track now. some of the photos were taken here.

i only see great and christina at family weddings and funerals this is the 1st time i've been to her house. you know jill my hips hurt i got psychotic. and my back is killing me going that's it they don't . just go. to church. my father said i should come talk to. me that you can not move even just one as mr christie no no. you should talk to me if you wish. ok yes i'd like to talk to about how work at the border you did during the war sort of searches gave us his main task was to keep track of the parachute drops that were organized by the polish government in exile in london he'd get the time and place usually a forest and then organize the pickup i want to be and. i'll

probably do this then this fellow from look inspires a piece of one of the parachutes to repaint the color of the materials had great colors that would be used to make clothes that out of medicine can cause you to me as this is part of. the congress of like back the. years. here are the dance and the ones i was on the way to school it was a secret school so i wasn't just set up by the underground polish home army. eats the ski mask i was crossing the square and suddenly the germans showed up. some of the i was a raid they shoved me into a truck and took us to the old school on yasmin street. they were going to deport us to germany as a forced laborers sasheer outreach that i share i cried my eyes and i'm saying yes i was 14 years old and i was being sent to germany but. i cried like

a baby you just one of the germans took pity on me he brought me to another room and told me to stop crying he said they wouldn't take me away they'd make me a waitress at the gestapo canteen medicaid or. stop work. now you and then. knight but then my brother got through to telling her the home army. some am i have a summer i kept the aprons as a souvenir they're all faded he said. the tailor made them for me because you couldn't buy things like that anymore those who guard the 0 groups 8 years. from crafts that last forever i still got a few are you saying you don't think that you know that you think if they were days

when you worked at the gestapo canteen you know like when you were there you know right if that if you like the pain you kept track of the prisoners they got if they're upset after the germans arrested someone i tried to find out as much as i could in my mind you could join she was upset that's. incredible my great aunt was forced to work for the gestapo at the same time she was working for the home army and she was just 14. christina told i like what she could about the prisoners. he passed along the information and coded messages. are asking just one of the gen scheme henrich. elec also sent his sister on missions through the city carrying messages or weapons. she'd been caught she could have been executed.

the day which he is i came here to talk to you about this box of photos on the next give the injust some money and i know when elec was in the resistance he lived with a married couple who do agreed to hide him. the man called stephan also got so worked in a photo circle and he took the photos and developed them the whole of all that was . so stuff and ascii work was l. ike in the resistance. 75 years ago this was the largest photo story in chester hold everyone had their photos developed here including the germans. stuff an oscar and a man names for their screen made unauthorized copies of their photos and pass them along to l. i. know i'm going to be traduced these grandson pavol. with you because you know. still good just as this photo with

a rabbi is from the chester home of ghetto but there is still the. mother's name. so there's going to thought this is the school lot of. good you know you know here's another one of the from us it was taken in the same place most of these you have this photo to write this is my cousin something that's yours and this one's mine he said look there's an x. mark on the back of both. there's lots of printed on the same paper so they're both a bit overexposed and the the one below this one is overdeveloped but see my grandfather used to make 2 sometimes 3 copies for the german customer from soft and from the resistance.

what is this russian girl thinking. and did this woman realize what was going on around her. the rabbi looks afraid probably for good reason. you know in an age of racial poisoning a state that preserves its best racial elements will one day become master of the world. the box has pictures from all over europe. i figured out that this is the schooling yasuda course can st police battalion number 310 from iranian born or stationed there but they were not traffic cops they were there to impose german law and order with deadly results. i did some research on the web and then decided to visit the police college or an inboard just north of berlin. feeling make you shit as an

expert on battalion 310 that's not looks like russia maybe you can tell me more about the photos. that's them put that's definitely a police officer you can see the german eagle insignia actually raised by oak leaves holmes when he said more from other parts of europe. this is something just this is the big question i have trying to find out. about my family how to survive to work. as a thing to me as there are lots of photos of prisoners and detainees and scenes of deportations. in there so i think the photographer was recording events for posterity. so it was that would give information to the relatives about the person's fate when he had water. and then these photos document war crimes and the

unbelievable destruction that took place he is that was the grabs they were intended to be used later as evidence and to help bring the perpetrators to justice . but on trying to take these photos. why he collected them. you know so i mean i have no idea where syria was the ones that show the germans deporting people from warsaw are valuable as evidence and there. are 7 of they shipped people off to the camps regime and a lot of them never came back. now this is. so here you are. german troops both s.s.

and very marched down the warsaw uprising in just 63 days. more than 200000 people were killed 100000 were deported for forced labor and 60000 were sent to concentration camps. somewhere in this crowd is my grandmother hanya my mother's mother her brother was killed in august 1044 just after the uprising started in an air raid. in september her husband was shot and killed in october she was deported. after the war she married heloise my grandfather. relic was just 30 years old when the war ended younger than i am now.

there was something else in that box besides the photos i still haven't been able to watch the 2 rolls of 16 millimeter film. i've taken it to a photo lab to see if they can help me. with it i wonder what the film will show. amateur pictures of german soldiers. in. scenes from the war. room. it's marked 1939 which means it was probably developed in that year but it doesn't show a war time scenes these pictures may have been taken in the summer of 39 shortly

before the war started 4 minutes one second snapshot in time. who are these people why are they smiling and what are these pictures doing in l x collection. i'll show them to and christina and see whether she knows. but i look you know this is from l x 2 rolls of film. you know going through through school i don't recognize any of these people that i don't know who shot this film. you know how did a film end up in the box. no idea if there's ever going to be maybe it took them from a german marks or possibly. look at them on. my end has lost none of her secret agent skills let's see if we can make out the

license plate number. that could tell us who owns the car. my license plate starts with s k s force alasia and k 4 cut off it's a 75 years ago in germany it would have been i cade. the original vehicle registration lists no longer exist but there are copies at the national library and like think. there are probably thousands of registrations with the sillies or prefix. the number i'm looking for is i came before 7860. i found a copy of the list but everything is filed by the registration date. finally i find the car was owned by the shredder brothers they lived it brought plots won his parents. the car was an 8 cylinder horse

a pretty cool car at the time. today is called yellin your gora i still can't confirm that the photos were actually shot there and i still don't know why i like had this roll of film i need to do some more research on. evil operate she is the director of the national archives here. is what's up with stuff and that's the old posture asa. it's not far from here it's these days it's called home army street it's. like it is because i mean there's obviously on a trip of some sort. well this is the czechoslovak bunker in the mountains near enough. built to protect against the german attack it was 80. the germans annexed the sudan inland in 1938 and later took over the rest of the country as those in

the bunkers ended up as tourist attractions and he thought of invincibility attacks into the system. that's an unusual development but i still want to find out who those people were and what they were doing there. was a piece of that the germans annexed the sudan inland and turned western czechoslovakia into a protectorate. so those people are visiting the new german territory but. are these the shirkers. i want to find out what happened to them after the summer of 1939. people helped me to track down the construction files for bra plots one. and then you thought that. it's over the money got a blueprint for building a toilet. that the sun still holds and will divide up thought is a pub that adjoins the city brewery. so what's the bit about i mean that it is so

that some of the scherzer own hirshberg memory. we can't find any more documents at these after the war a lot of east german territory went to poland including now you and your gora with each other. if the shirkers survived the war and wanted to hold on to their brewery they'd have had to become polish citizens spend another year with us i wonder whether either of the brothers applied for citizenship that's why i didn't find an application for them so i looked at some documents filed by others. we read some klara of. here by apply for polish citizenship. and as my last name indicates my ancestors were of slavic origins yes but then this was the place that escaped and is that this applicant joined the nazi party in 1937 he says he signed up only because he had a government job and was never an active member in this he would shoot us he adds

that he has no polish blood says this is a band that they don't know if you had the authorities gathered information about the applicants by interviewing neighbors to those german and polish this application was rejected. 2 sons is not yet. there are no files on the shorter brothers it seems that they had to leave their property behind probably in 1946. the poles had vivid memories of the atrocities carried out by the germans and they were in no mood to forgive. even still german civilians leaving poland let em back up their things and go back on. it c.q. we put heaters in their trucks and gave them blankets and our food. we've got to do it. straight yours rick. said to me i mean i was upset.

won't have happened if my grandfather had not been granted citizenship in poland he would have had to leave the country he'd never have met hina the young woman from or saw. and he never would have delivered me. i wonder whether the chargers have ever come back to visit their borough. today brought plots one is not one and today 10 families live here instead of just one. committed to trying to find out what happened to the people who lived here in 1945 oh you know idea i've only lived here for 20 years i just you're not looking you've been given one of the neighbors might know about 3.

any one. movies but that one over them maybe. i mean i don't remember much from that time i hope it's just the one that so you know let the shutters in so you know because they spoke german. do you mean so that as a back then when people had german they thought hitler was just around the corner. you know the doorbell rang an interpreter asked whether i'd mind talking to a couple of germans who used to live here in kiev that's on the go that i said ok and invited them in so it was a man and his wife they brought me some trousers i still have them. a pair of black trousers. well that spot.

the problem is that the shorters did not leave a forwarding address so how can i track them down. i decided to try the german federal archives fibroids. germans who were driven out of the eastern territory's after the war could qualify for compensation if they renounced all future claims they had to fill out an application and provide an address. stephanie yost works at the archive maybe she can help me. as a boxer and i see him being willing to go to ok ok says he owned a car a horse it was a used car. he bought it in 1937 for 3000 marks coughed he says the very mocked confiscated it 5 years later this is the schlock let's face it here's a list of everything he says he lost no muss and alice for one hot one in

that car in the film so maybe we can find a record of the car here in the file stand us dusty's is a tool of his and it's. good now off i ask in the documents he describes the cars he owned. it could be that the shut it up at the family went with water off the family just into weekend trip with friends all relative so it would happen but the other possibility is of course that there was it was not their own cars so and you know the cars quite prominent in this feature film so maybe if they made the film because they were so proud of the rented car. damn a rental car so it may not be the shooters in the pictures after all but stephanie keeps looking. to his mall thought the path after him

a shine i should say that there is a name for. this is the this is really interesting the 18 year old son is named his name yeah it makes sense it did much didn't appear in any of the fires and. there was a kind of logic at him because he would have been too young at the time to even 945 or 46 he would have been 10 years old. he has no property so he didn't fill out an application. so this might be your missing link to have those something. that's the one. you are short term was 10 years old in 1946 he still could be alive. maybe i'll be able to find him online. i'll see if he has any other relatives. the

final show that dietmar was born in bad form brought. today it's called plates of a district feeling there gore i've managed to track him down to date to a place of birth match perfectly. that is definitely. he's an artist. i know i know it's hello my name is me look here dietmar shirt is right for me. i'm looking for the shorter family from here speck i have something that may belong to your relatives. would like to show it to you if i could. shift it. is this finally the family i'm looking for. showing it's nice to meet you like you say met life right.

now it's incredible when there isn't. you know they can you know if you can you know how did you stop for a 2nd so i can see the people you know that right there those are the be pushed on relatives. i snitched i can't really identify any of those people. and they're really much too small for me to recognize. and besides he was pretty young at the time that the film was shot this condition that it would be shorter but i can't say for sure. she gained more weight later on but it could be her. the whole she wanted to brewery and his back. was huge and old i remember and. there were 2 vaulted sellers. that live on the brewery and my grandmother and aunt girl and some other relatives lived

there. front there was a park in the taxis and buses used to park there. i made a lot of money i didn't have enough my family put the his back side. after the war all the shorters left. i mean if you have a family photo album. this is indeed doing it here this year in the mountains that's me my dad has my mom in it is key it's the more it ended by then i . spent a year under occupation and clicky fix 1st the russians then the poles that was our collective fate of me things were pretty bad i had no idea why this was happening to us i think i was just a kid so i didn't ask. and i get all those ideas in order to sort of the house hands up and we had to find no place to look at what was in the one but when done

time in a year later in 1986. we went through the district street by street. and order all the germans to come out and say load us onto a train. gun's toilet i thought it was a great adventure. or seen anything like. that so far as a freight train i set right up front this is hanging out over an iron bar and the train moved really slowly and i just watched the scenery and i thought it was quite a pleasant trip. feet i'm going to bother me at all a lot of people really said that some were crying. and there was a straw to sleep on the sanitary conditions were appalling. and them across the nicer river. we were still wearing the armbands that the poles had ordered us to wear them frightened if we took them off and threw them away we were going to the west.

they. didn't know if he had the ball on. the inspectors or local farmers and residents didn't want to stop there i told us to go back where we came from. outside for a while and then found a place to stay in the stall in the barn after that things got a little more normal. family have to leave my family wanted to like many with german groups in the 1980 s. it took a long time to do the immigration paperwork and then they aren't curtain came down so we stayed where we were. tomorrow i'm going to meet more sister hunter shorter pole maybe she can identify the people in the film. that would have really never surely learned late sorry. under these and i

really sorry i'm late i shot there. she was ready to leave but i twisted her on ok. ok. ok so i'm going to explain to you the story of why i'm here. oh oh no hitler and you know it no that's not hitler and human this is it is not hitler at a different no. when you think it's a dead ringer there's no doubt about it you don't miss the deaths of do you know. she was from through this we can see that he was in and is the people i play the part of the nazi party for the party members to family for they weren't interested in politics my father my father joined the party because he had to work for the

state he wasn't a true believer just a member. needs to come up for more i miss him to asking my mother to join but she refused to do it my husband a mortal oh indeed but again she had more courage than my father did my mother that mahmoud. what sort of power is that. right. yeah yeah he caught it and an ikea license plate force lesia that's what those were the sure 2 brothers cars it was their company this is this film was shot while they were on a trip to the mountains and 938 or 39 of them as you would have none of that you know who own the camera and film did it how to do that they always had the latest high tech gear. and i don't suggest. how absolutely they were

obsessed with their toys if the fed says do you recognize me when they. return please. let's just end this is that it stands martha and you can see it more clearly here no doubt about it you know horse now that high forehead she was always having headaches. so it's aunt martha who had a high forehead and suffered from migraines. a real person not just an anonymous figure in a brief film clip. on a and dietmar suggest that i visit their cousin peter who lives in the valleys or up lands region he's the last surviving shorter from the brewery. to horse car belong to dealers father i think i finally solved this case here is

this is the post office both house post office was here the right. answer and because capitol cinema was just a few steps away now. i can still remember 70 years. he certainly can remember the old part of harrisburg his aunt martha even their phone number at the time. have you ever been back there when you go to the i 74 times if that's the last time was 3 years ago mine's a one north side wanted to see the place so off we went or doesn't. go far on my wife come from the bus stop both of us also we visited professor oh. and the reason about the mountains as beautiful. as my home plant was to the flat so that home again right away so it's a lot of fun. it's

time for me to head back home. hi i've solved the puzzle. it started with a simple family story and turned into a german polish polish german saga. a complex history full of sorrow and personal loss. to share her brother who survived the war but they were forced to leave their homeland. there were many victims in my family too. after the war the communists took over in poland and started to eliminating potential opponents. yes about going straight answers because we have here's the home store he was killed there's the gate. to the secret police had a jail here comes you well he was arrested for being in anticommunist he tried to

escape in a courtyard and they shot it was that. in a. cemetery straight ahead. no more we'll be there in a minute. larger haircutter yeah. i guess alexander league you sure knew tenet of the home army code name born in 1916 murdered august 2nd 1905 by the polish state security bureau. we're here also mega actually it was august 6th they got the date wrong about our new. top i still can't believe the great example of just a little bit of certain about it is this they never told us where they buried him

he just disappeared is that the file on him is close to my usual so you can't search for him we spent long days and nights at the cemetery so whenever they buried someone my mother would take a look out to see if it was alec. dude that's why they never gave the bunny back to us that we don't know where they buried him. this year maybe here maybe they're all we can do is guess. it's a favor the fact of the matter is i suppose he's gone. it's just. it's.

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