A documentary film by Susanne and Peter Scheiner
Duration: 45 minutes
Languages: German (O), English
© AVA Scheiner AG / Zürich

Screenings

- Zürich, Kino Xenix, December 2007
- Kilchberg, Ref. Kirchgemeinde, September 2007
- Zürich, Israelitische Cultusgemdeinde, July 2007
- Brugg, Kino Odeon, March 2007

Festivals

-	Jewish Eye - 5th World Jewish Film Festival, Ashkelon, Israel 22 October, 6 pm, Hall B 23 October, 4 pm, Hall B Int. Convention Center of the Ashkelon Academic College
-	Swiss Film & Videofestival Spiez and Thun, 2008
-	Jewish Motifs IV International Filmfestival Warsaw, 2007
-	Jewish Filmfestival Vienna, 2007

Content

Jerzy Czarnecki, the protagonist of the film, could have contented himself with a quiet retirement after many years of work as a nuclear technologist for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. But he is driven to act: he has unique memories and feels a pressing obligation to share them. Starting with a journey to Mosty Wielkie (in today's Ukraine), the town where he spent his youth and which he had to leave in 1942, the film tracks the key places and events in Jerzy's life. These include his flight from the Nazis in the Second World War, forced labour in Germany, starting a new life in Poland after the war and finally - caused by a resurge of open antisemitism in Poland beginning in 1967 - emigration to Switzerland in 1972. Jerzy's is a long road, paved with tragic and dramatic experiences - from life in a small Galician town to Windisch, another small place in the Swiss canton of Aargau.