Jerzy Bossak

Jerzy Bossak

1910-07-31
78 (1989-05-23)
Rostov-on-Don, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]

Jerzy Bossak was a documentary film director, journalist, pedagogue, and one of the key organizers and authors of post-war cinema in Poland.

Rostov-on-Don, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]

Jerzy Bossak was a documentary film director, journalist, pedagogue, and one of the key organizers and authors of post-war cinema in Poland.

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Warszawa 1956 1956 (6.1)

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.
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Requiem for 500,000 1963 (4)

A short documentary made in 1963 by Jerzy Bossak and Wacław Kaźmierczak featuring unique archival footage of the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw. The Warsaw Ghetto (pol. “Getto Warszawskie” ) was the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. From there, about 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to Treblinka extermination camp during the three months of summer 1942.
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Peace Will Win 1951 (3)

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England, was the initial location of the event, however, it was transferred to the capital of Poland at the very last moment.