the peretznicks

after world war two alot of jews went back to poland and resettled there between 1946 and 1968. many settled in lodz and attended the peretznick school. i saw a documentary at the jewish film festival about this school. the film was called the peretznicks.
before i saw this movie i didnt realize that any jews went back to live in poland after the shoah. apparently many did. many even had a positive experience. they all left poland after 1968 because there was tremendous anti-semitism following the six day war in israel.
as difficult as it was for these people to leave poland in 1968 , it was a little hard to feel bad since they didn't leave in the same way the jews left 18 years before that during the shoah. still, i did feel bad for them. poland still hadnt learned its lesson even in 1968.
2 children who had attended the peretznick school by chance were at the screening . one was a seventy-something woman and the other a man in his late fifties. at a previous screening there were forty former students of peretznick who were at the screening and they even took a group photo. this is why i love seeing these movies during the film festival. you get to meet those who show up to these films who were not asked to show up to the screening, but who add so much to the q&a when the filmmaker is present.