The director of the “Śródmieście” Community Center in Białystok invites you to a meeting with the director Beata Hyży-Czołpińska, the author of the documentary “The Day I Received a Letter…”.
The event will take place on February 28, 2023 at 18:00 at the “Śródmieście” Community Center in Białystok as part of the Municipal Art Salon and 80th anniversary of the Białystok ghetto uprising. The screening will be followed by an interview with the director and historian Wiesław Wróbel.
A highly regarded screenwriter and director of documentaries
Beata Hyży-Czolpińska graduated from screenwriting at the National Film, Television and Theater School in Łódź. She is a screenwriter and director of documentary films, a juror of film festivals, an academic lecturer and a laureate of many awards at Polish and foreign festivals, including: the National Reporters’ Competition MELCHIORY 2017 in the Inspiration of the Year category, Grand Prix of the 16th International Nature Film Festival W. Puchalski 2015, Grand Prix of the National Historical Broadcast of the Year 2016. In 2014, she received the Award of the Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship in the field of artistic creation, dissemination and protection of culture for “outstanding contribution to showing the most valuable, often underestimated and unknown people and places that create the culture of the region “.
Screening of the film and conversation with its creators
During the event at the “Śródmieście” Community Center in Białystok, you will be able to watch a documentary film by Beata Hyża-Czolpińska entitled “The day I received the letter…”. After the screening, there will be a conversation between the audience and the director and Wiesław Wróbel – a historian participating in the creation of the reportage. It will be a special opportunity to explore the history of Białystok’s Jewish population during World War II.
After 45 years, he learned the history of his family
Lusia Gurwicz was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Białystok. After 18 years, she left her hometown and went to Belgium to study – there she was found by the Second World War. Lusia, together with her husband and newborn son, escaped from the Jewish pogrom in the mountains of France. Unfortunately, two years later, Lusia and her husband were arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where they both died in the gas chamber. Only their son, whom Lusia hid with a neighbor, survived. He grew up after the war with his father’s family, not knowing what happened to his parents. After 45 years he received a letter…
An encounter with history
The event will take place on February 28 (Tuesday) at 18:00 at the “Śródmieście” Community Center in Białystok (ul. Jana Kilińskiego 13, second floor). Entrance is free.
