Film Screening & Discussion
at Tel Aviv University 

• Coorganized by
• The European Association of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (AEMJP)
• The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations, Tel Aviv University
• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University
• in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Tel Aviv.

You are warmly invited to a special screening of a film by R. Lewandowski, a powerful documentary exploring the intertwined destinies of two women in the context of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. The screening will be preceded by a historical introduction and followed by a discussion in English.
The film was selected by the prestigious Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque (December 2025), and our screening is the first in Israel outside the festival.

Cywia & Rachela.
They resisted in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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ורחלה – לוחמות בגטו ורשה ‎צביה

Bojowniczki. One walczyły w getcie warszawskim
Insurgées ! Les résistantes du ghetto de Varsovie
Language: French, Hebrew & Polish with English and Hebrew subtitles; 90 min.

 Date: Wednesday, December 17th, 2025

 Program
16:00 – Gathering and light refreshments
16:30 – Introduction (in English) by Rafael Lewandowski, the film’s director, Sharon Geva, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at Kibbutzim College & Anna C. Zielinska, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lorraine, France & executive director of the AEMJP
17:00 – 18:30 – Film screening
18:30 – 19:00 – Questions/answers & concluding discussion

 Location: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University
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CYWIA & RACHELA. THEY RESISTED IN THE WARSAW GHETTO
In the spring of 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising had a considerable impact. Over a three-week period, a few hundred Jewish resistance fighters, armed with only the barest armaments, stood up to a force of two thousand heavily-armed SS men.
Women played a key role in this uprising, like Rachel Auerbach (1903-1976) and Cywia Lubetkin (1914-1978), the heroines of this documentary, which details the nature, origin, course and consequences of this act of resistance, symbolizing the refusal of passivity in the face of programmed death.