My Polish Parents. Adam Han-Górski’s account

Adam Han-Górski was born in 1940 in Lvov in the Hahn family. During the German occupation, he and his grandparents were sent to the ghetto in Jaworów, then in Kraków. In 1942, a two-year-old boy was took away from the ghetto by a friend of the Hahn family from Lvov, Katarzyna (Kazia) Chytry. She with her later husband, Jan Witz, hid Adam in their apartment until the end of the war, when his parents returned - they survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. After the war, Adam Han-Górski became a world-famous violinist. We present his account from the oral history collection of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
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Interview: Joanna Król (researcher), Przemysław Jaczewski (camera operator), POLIN Museum (2014);
Directing: Artur Królicki, TakTo (2018);
Translation: Andrew Rajcher
Music: Kevin MacLeod licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0).
// VISUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FILM //
00:00 Logotype of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews - Polish Righteous Project.
00:07 Adam Han-Górski shows a photo of Katarzyna Chytry.
00:36 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
00:43 Photo: a few-years-old Adam Han-Górski with his Jewish parents, Szymon and Helena Hahn, as well as Polish parents, Jan Witz and Katarzyna Chytry.
00:49 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
01:04 Black subtitles on a white background.
01:13 Photo: Helena Hahn.
01:18 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
01:29 Photo: the occupation of Lvov by the Germans; on the left side are German soldiers, on the right side are civilians, in the middle are German military cars passing through a row of flags with swastikas.
01:37 Photo: the occupation of Lvov by the Germans; civilian population surrounded by German soldiers.
01:41 Photo: the occupation of Lvov by the Germans; on the left side are civilian population welcoming the army, on the right side are German military car filled with soldiers, in the background is the cathedral.
01:45 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
01:52 Photo: Szymon Hahn.
01:57 Black subtitles on a white background.
02:04 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
02:12 Photo: a few-years-old Adam Han-Górski and Katarzyna Chytry.
02:17 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
02:32 Photo: Adam Han-Górski and Katarzyna Chytry.
02:37 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
02:52 Photo: a few-years-old Adam Han-Górski standing on a balcony.
03:02 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
03:18 Photo: a few-years-old Adam Han-Górski with Katarzyna Chytry and Jan Witz.
03:29 Photo: a few-years-old Adam Han-Górski and Jan Witz.
03:38 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
03:49 Photo: two-car tram with passengers on the street in Lvov.
03:54 Photo: the church of St. Andrew in Lvov.
03:59 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
04:08 Black subtitles on a white background.
04:14 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
04:31 Photo: Helena and Szymon Hahn on the grass.
04:39 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
04:59 Black subtitles on a white background.
05:11 A fragment of the Polish Film Chronicle presenting the concert of Adam Han-Górski at the Philharmonic in Katowice in 1948.
05:52 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
05:57 Photo: prof. Karol Szafranek and Adam Han-Górski during music rehearsal.
06:01 Photos: Adam Han-Górski during concerts in later years.
06:13 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
06:16 Photo: a few-years-old Adam Han-Górski with Katarzyna Chytry and Jan Witz.
06:26 Black subtitles on a white background.
06:33 Adam Han-Górski is talking about his story.
06:52 Logotype of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews - Polish Righteous Project.
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